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Astonish Me
A Literary Fiction Novel by Maggie Shipstead
Subgenres:
- Historical Fiction,
- Ballet,
- Soviet Russia
This book is for you if you're into...
- Ballet worlds haunted by past loves and impossible choices
- Characters navigating secrets across Paris, Manhattan, and California
For years Joan has been trying to find peace and satisfaction in her role as wife and mother. Few in her drowsy California suburb know her thrilling history: as a young American ballerina in Paris, she had a doomed affair with Soviet dance superstar Arslan Rusakov. After playing a leading role in his celebrated defection, Joan bowed out of the spotlight for good, heartbroken by Arslan and humbled by her own modest career.
But when her son turns out to be a ballet prodigy, Joan is pulled back into a world she thought she'd left behind—a world of dangerous secrets, of Arslan, and of longing for what will always be just out of reach.
The inner lives of the characters feel as real and immediate as the shifting settings they inhabit: still-gritty mid-1970s Manhattan, shabbily elegant Paris, the sunbaked suburban sprawl of Southern California.
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