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Die Protagonistinnen in diesen Erzählungen scheinen auf den ersten Blick alle Lucky Girls zu sein: junge, oft attraktive Frauen, denen die Welt offensteht. Sie sind in Eliteschulen ausgebildet und schreiten selbstbewusst den Weg der Emanzipation, den ihre Mütter und Großmütter geebnet haben. Mit Prada-Rucksäcken als Symbole ihres privilegierten Lebensstils bewegen sie sich zwischen Städten wie San Francisco, Paris, Bombay und Bangkok. Die 16-jährige Julia lebt in Bombay mit ihrem Vater und bereitet sich auf die Aufnahmeprüfung eines amerikanischen Colleges vor. Ihr Privatlehrer Zubin hilft ihr nicht nur akademisch, sondern auch bei ihrem Wunsch, endlich die Unschuld zu verlieren. Eine junge Malerin, die nach Indien gezogen ist, um in der Nähe ihres verheirateten Geliebten zu sein, sieht sich nach dessen plötzlichem Tod mit der Unsicherheit ihres Aufenthaltsrechts konfrontiert. Mit psychologischer Einsicht und ästhetischem Feingefühl entwirft die Autorin in fünf Erzählungen das Porträt einer Generation, die trotz ihrer Stärke und Unabhängigkeit auch zerbrechlich und verloren wirkt. Die exotischen Schauplätze, reich an sinnlichen Details, bilden einen lebendigen Hintergrund, vor dem diese Lucky Girls mit Themen wie Fremdheit und Verlust konfrontiert werden.

Helen Clapp's breakthrough work on five-dimensional spacetime landed her a tenured professorship at MIT; her popular books explain physics in plain terms. Helen disdains notions of the supernatural in favor of rational thought and proven ideas. So it's perhaps especially vexing for her when, on an otherwise unremarkable Wednesday in June, she gets a phone call from a friend who has just died. That friend was Charlotte Boyce, Helen's roommate at Harvard. The two women had once confided in each other about everything--in college, the unwanted advances Charlie received from a star literature professor; after graduation, Helen's struggles as a young woman in science, Charlie's as a black screenwriter in Hollywood, their shared challenges as parents. But as the years passed, Charlie became more elusive, and her calls came less and less often. And now she's permanently, tragically gone. As Helen is drawn back into Charlie's orbit, and also into the web of feelings she once had for Neel Jonnal--a former college classmate now an acclaimed physicist on the verge of a Nobel Prize winning discovery--she is forced to question the laws of the universe that had always steadied her mind and heart

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In The Newlyweds, we follow the story of Amina Mazid, who at age twenty-four takes a leap of faith and moves from Bangladesh to Rochester, New York, for love. But as their relationship deepens, they discover that they both carry secrets from their pasts. “A big, complicated portrait of marriage, culture, family, and love. . . . Every minute I was away from this book I was longing to be back in the world she created.” —Ann Patchett Amina Mazid is twenty-four when she moves from Bangladesh to Rochester, New York, for love. A hundred years ago, Amina would have been called a mail-order bride. But this is the twenty-first century: she is wooed by—and woos—George Stillman online. For Amina, George offers a chance for a new life for her and her parents, as well as a different kind of happiness than she might find back home. For George, Amina is a woman who doesn't play games. But each of them is hiding something: someone from the past they thought they could leave behind. It is only when Amina returns to Bangladesh that she and George find out if their secrets will tear them apart, or if they can build a future together.

"A novel set in French Polynesia and New York City about three characters-a fifteen year old girl toggling between her mother, a marine biologist studying coral reefs on an island off the coast of Tahiti, and her father, a surgeon in Manhattan-who undergo massive transformation over the course of a single year"-- Provided by publisher

Amina Mazid, dwudziestoczterolatka z Bangladeszu, poznaje na portalu randkowym� Amerykanina, George’a Stillmana. Zakochana i szczęśliwa rozpoczyna nowe życie u boku męża w wyśnionych Stanach Zjednoczonych. Sekrety z przeszłości szybko burzą harmonię związku. Amina stanie przed niełatwym wyzwaniem pogodzenia dw�ch kultur, oczekiwań rodzic�w i� własnych aspiracji, cynicznego pragnienia wygodnego życia w Stanach z romantycznymi tęsknotami. �