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MIRA
August 2010
On Sale: July 27, 2010
Featuring: Tai Rosen; Sylvia Sandon
400 pages
ISBN: 0778328899
EAN: 9780778328896
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Women's Fiction
Sylvia Sandon always swore she wouldnโt become her mother. But one August morning she finds herself walking the same path as the fervently religious yet faithless Elaineโฆinto an affair she feels powerless to resist. Against the backdrop of California brush fires in the โ70s, twelve year-old Sylvia had agreed to hold a secret that would devour her familyโs dream of happiness. Now struggling to create a better life in small-town New England, Sylvia nonetheless feels caught in the coils of history: she confronts the embers of her dying marriage, the all-consuming needs of her two daughters and her faltering artistic career. Then Tai Rosenโthe father of a studentโ ignites an unexpected passion and a familiar betrayal that could illuminate the past, even as it jeopardizes everything dear. Outside the Ordinary World reveals what lies beneath the surface of infidelity. But at its heart, it is the story of the powerful, sometimes disturbing bond between mothers and daughters, and the shimmering line between self-revelation and self-destruction.
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