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SympathyOlivia Sudjic

Sympathy

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"At twenty-three, Alice Hare leaves England for New York. She becomes fixated on Mizuko Himura, a Japanese writer living in New York, whose life story has strange parallels to her own and who she believesis her "Internet twin." What seems to Mizuko like a chance encounter with Alice is anything but--after all, in the age of connectivity, nothing is coincidence.Their subsequent relationship is doomed from the outset, exposing a tangle of lies and sexual encounters as three families across the globe collide, and the most ancient of questions--where do we come from?--is answered just by…

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6 editions
  • Other · English · 2018
    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers · 432 pages · 9781328916204
  • Other · English · 2018
    Pushkin Press, Limited · 9780993506260
  • Other · English · 2017
    Pushkin Press, Limited · 9781911590002
  • Other · English · 2017
    Pushkin Press, Limited · 422 pages · 9780992918293
  • Other · English · 2017
    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 320 pages · 9780544836624
  • Other · English · 2017
    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt · 406 pages · 9780544836594
Social mediaFictionFamiliesTechnologyLesbiansNew york (n.y.), fictionFiction, psychologicalNew York Times reviewed