A NOVEL Sims, Laura 1973- creator author. text novel nyu 2019 2019 monographic eng

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182 pages ; 22 cm In this taut and thrilling debut, an unraveling woman, unhappily childless and recently separated, becomes fixated on her neighbor--the actress. The unnamed narrator can't help noticing with wry irony that, though she and the actress live just a few doors apart, a chasm of professional success and personal fulfillment lies between them. The actress, a celebrity with her face on the side of every bus, shares a gleaming brownstone with her handsome husband and their three adorable children, while the narrator, working in a dead-end job, lives in a run-down, three-story walk-up with her ex-husband's cat. When an interaction with the actress at the annual block party takes a disastrous turn, what began as an innocent preoccupation spirals quickly, and lethally, into a frightening and irretrievable madness. adult LAURA SIMS American fiction Women Conduct of life Fiction Neighbors Fiction Actresses Crimes against Fiction 813.6 9781982115715 PPAK 191112 20191119153848.0 eng