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03309aam a2200421 i 4500 001 AB0AA674A39211ED924352D529ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230203011453 008 220909s2023 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2022042881 020 $a 0802160719 020 $a 9780802160713 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d DLC $d NjBwBT $d IMmBT $d NjBwBT $d SILO 050 00 $a PS3603.R35 $b M9 2023 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23/eng/20220909 100 1 $a Craig, Charmaine, $e author. 245 10 $a My nemesis : $b a novel / $c Charmaine Craig. 250 $a First edition, First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Grove Press, $c 2023. 300 $a 192 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "From the acclaimed author of Miss Burma, longlisted for the National Book Award and the Women's Prize, comes a tense and thought-provoking exploration of an intellectual affair and its reverberations across the lives of two couples. Tessa is a successfulwhite woman writer who develops a friendship, first by correspondence and then in person, with Charlie, a ruggedly handsome philosopher and scholar based in Los Angeles. Sparks fly as they exchange ideas about Camus and masculine desire, and their intellectual connection promises more--but there are obstacles to this burgeoning relationship. While Tessa's husband Milton enjoys Charlie's company on his visits to the East Coast, Charlie's mixed-race Asian wife Wah is a different case, and she proves to beboth adversary and conundrum to Tessa. Wah's traditional femininity and subservience to her husband strike Tessa as weaknesses, and she scoffs at the sacrifices Wah makes as adoptive mother to a Burmese girl, Htet, once homeless on the streets of Kuala Lumpur. But Wah has a kind of power too, especially over Charlie, and the conflict between the two women leads to Tessa's martini-fueled declaration that Wah is "an insult to womankind." As Tessa is forced to deal with the consequences of her outburst and considers how much she is limited by her own perceptions, she wonders if Wah is really as weak as she has seemed, or if she might have a different kind of strength altogether. An exercise in empathy, an exploration of betrayal, and a charged story of the thrill of a shared connection-and the perils of feminine rivalry-My Nemesis is a brilliantly dramatic and captivating story from a hugely talented writer whose portrayals are always gracefully phrased and keenly observed"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Married people $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Self-perception $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Man-woman relationships $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i Online version: 776 08 $a Craig, Charmaine. $t My nemesis $b First edition, First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. $d New York : Grove Press, 2023 $z 9780802160720 $w (DLC) 2022042882 941 $a 9 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20240210010152.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010032558.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20230708011230.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230603010749.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230307010614.0 952 $l SCPC074 $d 20230304010802.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20230302010728.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20230302010300.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20230221011436.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AB0AA674A39211ED924352D529ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search