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How to Fare Well and Stay Fair, Paperback / softback Book

How to Fare Well and Stay Fair Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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Inside this book bursts a kaleidoscope of characters in historical settings from the Balkans to Scandinavia, which they seek to escape, fit in, or change.

Following a few female leads after they leave war-torn Bosnia, this book compresses simmering emotions ranging from loss, fear, love, hate, revenge, displacement, regret, humor, and hope.

Almasa, the main character in most stories, is feisty and funny, and she suffers no fools.

She will go to any length to take charge of her broken life and avoid being labeled a victim.

Fatima is like her subtler sister, but no less determined to turn the tables on her horrible fate.

In between them are pieces of the author's life, as fictionalized as the lives of the two women are real. Each story, although compact and unique on its own, is tied to all other stories, chronologically, emotionally, or thematically.

Together they probe the margins of our contemporary history and give voice to people pushed to the edge of life.

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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
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