02060cam a22003255i 4500 OSt 20251027153716.0 140408s2014 miu d 000 1 eng 9780307596901 [hardbound] eng rda University of Cebu-Banilad 23 Messud, Claire, 1966- author. The woman upstairs / Claire Messud. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2013. 253 pages ; 22 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Nora Eldridge, a 37-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 École Normale Supérleure; 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. Senior High School Fiction English Elementary school teachers Fiction. Women artists Fiction. Teacher-student relationships Fiction. Large type books. Psychological fiction. Fiction. lcgft ddc BK adryann[new] 10/27/2025 14581 14581 0 0 ddc 0 0 SHSL SHSL FIC 2025-10-27 Donated by the chancellor Ms Candice Gotianuy 0 F M56wo 2013 3UCBLSH00000254 2025-10-27 2025-10-27 FIC