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Cutting Edge : New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers by Joyce Carol Oates; Margaret Atwood; Valerie Martin; Aimee Bender; Edwidge Danticat; Sheila Kohler; S.A. Solomon; S.J. Rozan; Lucy Taylor; Cassandra Khaw; Bernice L. McFadden; Jennifer Morales; Elizabeth McCracken; Livia Llewellyn; Lisa Lim; Steph Cha; Laurel Hausler is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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An Iranian American returns home to help a friend and finds his life in danger: "Remarkable . . . a smart, eloquent novel." #8212;Dalia Sofer, author of The Septembers of Shiraz The year is 2008. Reza Malek's life is modest but manageable#8212;he lives in a small apartment in Harlem, teaches at a local university, and is relieved to be far from the blood and turmoil of Iraq and Afghanistan, where he worked as a reporter, interpreter, and sometimes lover for a superstar journalist who has long since moved on to more remarkable men. But after a terse phone call from his best friend in Iran, Reza reluctantly returns to Tehran. Once there, he finds far more than he bargained for: the city is on the edge of revolution; his friend is embroiled with Shia militants; and his missing mother, who was alleged to have run off before the revolution, is alive and well#8212;while his own life is now in danger. Against a backdrop of corrupt clerics, shady fixers, political repression, and the ever-present threat of violence, this novel offers a telling glimpse into contemporary Tehran, and spins a riveting morality tale of identity and exile, the bonds of friendship, and the limits of loyalty. "[A]

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Author

Joyce Carol Oates; Margaret Atwood; Valerie Martin; Aimee Bender; Edwidge Danticat; Sheila Kohler; S.A. Solomon; S.J. Rozan; Lucy Taylor; Cassandra Khaw; Bernice L. McFadden; Jennifer Morales; Elizabeth McCracken; Livia Llewellyn; Lisa Lim; Steph Cha; Laurel Hausler

Publisher

Akashic Books

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781617757624

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Mystery, Thriller