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Sunday Sentence: The Woman Upstairs

April 28, 2013

Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary.

woman upstairs

Each one, in my impassioned interior conversations, granted me some aspect of my most dearly held, most fiercely hidden, heart’s desires: life, art, motherhood, love, and the great seductive promise that I wasn’t nothing, that I could be seen for my unvarnished self, this precious girl without a mask, unseen for decades, could—that she must, indeed—leave a trace upon the world. -The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud

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  1. Shannon says

    April 28, 2013 at 3:05 pm

    So curious about this book, I’ve heard several people talk about the changes that take place over the course of the novel. Can’t wait to see what your review will be like!

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