An Unnecessary Woman Adam Silvera But after a year of

But after a year of nursing a broken heart inflicted by the fiancée who all but ditched her at the altar

a shy young Englishman infatuated with Olanna's willful twin sister Kainene

and bathroom police

race and diaspora

An Unnecessary Woman Adam Silvera But after a year ofNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A happily misanthropic Middle East divorcee finds refuge in books in a "beautiful and absorbing" novel of late life crisis (The New York Times). Aaliya is a divorced, childless, and reclusively cranky translator in Beirut nurturing doubts about her latest project: a 900 page avant garde, linguistically serpentine historiography by a late Chilean existentialist. Honestly, at seventy two, should she be taking on such a