Nell Freudenberger

The Limits

The most thrilling work yet from the best-selling author of The Newlyweds and Lost and Wanted, a suspenseful new novel set in French Polynesia and New York City about people struggling to reach each other across the boundaries of nation, race, and class.

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Lost and Wanted
A suspenseful, deeply affecting new novel from the best-selling author, told in the voice of a renowned physicist: the story of friends and lovers, lost and found, at the most defining moments of their lives.
The Newlyweds
Amina Mazid is twenty-four when she moves from Bangladesh to Rochester, New York, for love. A hundred years ago, Amina would have been called a mail-order bride. But this is the twenty-first century: she is wooed by—and woos—George Stillman online.
The Dissident
An intricately woven novel about secrets, love, art, and the chaos of everyday American life. Yuan Zhao, a celebrated Chinese performance artist and political dissident, has accepted a one-year artist’s residency in Los Angeles.
Lucky Girls
Five stories, set in Southeast Asia and on the Indian subcontinent—each one bearing the weight and substance of a short novella—narrated by young women who find themselves face-to-face with the compelling circumstances of adult love.

NELL FREUDENBERGER is the author of the novels Lost and Wanted, The Newlyweds and The Dissident, and of the story collection Lucky Girls, which won the PEN/Malamud Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.