{"product_id":"the-woman-upstairs","title":"The Woman Upstairs","description":"\u003cp\u003eNora 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 Ecole Normale Superleure; 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. \u003cbr\u003e\n Dimensions:22 x 240  \u003cbr\u003e\n Author: Messud Claire \u003cbr\u003e\n ISBN: 9781844087334 \u003cbr\u003e\n Format:  \u003cbr\u003e\n Pages 304\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bookhero.ae","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44768436420761,"sku":"16RC-1-9781844087334","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0580\/5696\/6297\/files\/35456f8b9cd4315467910c649a4d5423.jpg?v=1724246888","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.ae\/products\/the-woman-upstairs","provider":"Dubai - Buy Used\/Second-Hand Books - BookHero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}