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The Woman Upstairs

Claire Messud

Hardcover | Pages: 272 pages

Rating: 3.31 | 30488 Users | 3654 Reviews

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Original Title:	The Woman Upstairs
ISBN:	0307596907 (ISBN13: 9780307596901)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Nora Eldridge, Reza Shahid, Skandar Shahid, Sirena Shahid
Setting:	Cambridge, Massachusetts(United States)
Literary Awards:	Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (2013), Arab American Book Award Nominee for Fiction (2014), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2014), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2013), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2015)

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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor's Children, a brilliant new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed, and betrayed by passion and desire for a world beyond her own.

Nora Eldridge, a thirty-seven-year-old elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who long ago abandoned her ambition to be a successful artist, has become the "woman upstairs," a reliable friend and tidy neighbor always on the fringe of others' achievements.

Then into her classroom walks Reza Shahid, a child who enchants as if from a fairy tale. He and his parents--dashing Skandar, a Lebanese scholar and professor at the École Normale Supérleure; and Sirena, an effortlessly glamorous Italian artist--have come to Boston for Skandar to take up a fellowship at Harvard. When Reza is attacked by schoolyard bullies who call him a "terrorist," Nora is drawn into the complex world of the Shahid family: she finds herself falling in love with them, separately and together. Nora's happiness explodes her boundaries, until Sirena's careless ambition leads to a shattering betrayal.

Told with urgency, intimacy, and piercing emotion, this story of obsession and artistic fulfillment explores the thrill--and the devastating cost--of giving in to one's passions.

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Title	:	The Woman Upstairs
Author	:	Claire Messud
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 272 pages
Published	:	April 30th 2013 by A. A. Knopf
Categories	:	Fiction. Literary Fiction. Contemporary. Art. Novels. Audiobook. Adult Fiction

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I really wanted to read this book as it provoked a stir in the media about the "likability" factor of a character. That, coupled with a friends urging, lead me right up the stairs. This book seems to be one that produces so many different reactions by different readers. For me, I was hooked right away, and couldn't put it down.It actually disturbs me that the question of whether or not Nora (the main character) is likable or not was even brought up. I found her fascinating, and the thought of

Did I find this book or did this book find me?Either way, this novel was so powerful and jarring that it jumbled my thoughts and disrupted my sleep. The story is focused on the anger and anxiety hell, let's just call it a mid-life crisis blended with some good ol' feminist rage of Nora Eldridge, a single woman who teaches elementary school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and who wishes she had more time to be an artist. One day, she meets a boy named Reza, and she becomes so attached to him and

Lots of women dont like the main character of this book. They see her as pathetic. This is a common view of the smugly married." It's easy to look down your nose at the main character if you have all the adornments of female success, the most important of which is that someone has found you sexually desirable enough to marry you. And once you have children, the deal is sealed. You are woman, hear you roar!Nora is a 37-year-old school teacher whose mother who truly loved her is dead and whose



The Woman Upstairs is an occasion to reawaken a literary hot button that I love: the unlikeable character. Plenty of people hated The Emperors Children for the same reason they hated The Corrections: couldnt relate to/sympathize with the characters, wouldnt want to be friends with them, etc. In a Publishers Weekly interview, Messud was asked about Nora, her dutiful but rage-filled, 40-something schoolteacher/wannabe artist whose life is reawakened but then betrayed by a charismatic expat and

37 year-old Nora Eldridge is one strange woman. As a lonely and unsatisfied school teacher with artistic ambitions, she befriends the parents of one of her young students and ends up obsessed with them. While she neglects her elderly father and forgets scheduled commitments at school, she succumbs to the needs of her so called new friends whom she now "loves" (in various ways) and desperately devotes all her free time; and the ending, well, not a surprise.I struggled through the better part of

At the age of thirty-seven she realized she'd neverRide through Paris in a sports car with the warm wind in her hair.So she let the phone keep ringing and she sat there softly singingLittle nursery rhymes she'd memorized in her daddy's easy chair.*The woman upstairs is reliable, organized, and never causes any trouble. Even her trash is always tidy. Nora Eldridge has lived her life as a "woman upstairs." She's a popular third grade teacher. She gets children. She has come to realize that her