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"Nell Zink's debut novel follows a downwardly mobile secretary from Philadelphia who marries an ambitious soon-to-be-expat pharmaceutical researcher in hopes that she will never work again. They end up in Germany, where it turns out that her new husband is tougher, sneakier, more sincere, more contradictory, and smarter than she is; she'd naturally thought it was impossible. Life becomes complicated with affairs, birding, and eco-terrorism. Bad things happen, yet they stagger through, clinging to each other from a safe distance. Eventually our heroine commences building a life of her own, in…
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3 editions- Paperback · English · 2016WallcreeperHARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS · 9780008130886
- Other · English · 2015WallcreeperHarperCollins Publishers Limited · 176 pages · 9780008130862
- Other · English · 2014Dorothy, a Publishing Project · 193 pages · 9780989760713
Bird watchingHusbands and wivesFictionFiction, family lifeMarried people, fictionEurope, fictionNew York Times reviewedFiction, family life, general