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When youre the woman upstairs, says the narrator of claire messuds new novel, nobody thinks of you first. The woman upstairs, messuds narrator suggests, is not to be confused with the proverbial madwoman in the attic who haunted jane eyre and became a symbol of feminist literary criticism. We are all furies, except the ones who are too damned foolish, fortytwo. The woman upstairs by claire messud claire messud s new novel, the woman upstairs, delves into the inner life of the quiet, friendly and secretly furious woman upstairs, a. The woman upstairs claire messud haftad 9781844087334.
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