![]() ![]() ![]() In the present day - and with the company of Alex, a très charmant teen descendant of Alexandre Dumas - Khayyam searches for a rumored lost painting, uncovering a connection between Leila and Alexandre Dumas, Eugène Delacroix, and Lord Byron that may have been erased from history.Įchoing across centuries, Leila and Khayyam’s lives intertwine, and as one woman’s long-forgotten life is uncovered, another’s is transformed. Two hundred years before Khayyam’s summer of discontent, Leila is struggling to survive and keep her true love hidden from the Pasha who has “gifted” her with favored status in his harem. But her maybe-ex-boyfriend is ghosting her, she might have just blown her chance at getting into her dream college, and now all she really wants is to be back home in Chicago figuring out her messy life instead of brooding in the City of Light. ![]() This holiday with her parents should be a dream trip for the budding art historian. It’s August in Paris and 17-year-old Khayyam Maquet - American, French, Indian, Muslim - is at a crossroads. Among the many fascinating accounts related in the book is that of Mary Lamb, the sister of Charles, who murdered her mother with a kitchen knife. She also analyzes the 'mind doctors' who treated them, including Freud and Lacan. ![]() Romance, Young Adult Fiction, Young Adult Literatureĭiscover New York Times bestseller Samira Ahmed’s romantic, sweeping adventure through the streets of Paris told in alternating narratives that bridge centuries, continents, and the lives of two young Muslim women fighting to write their own stories. Lisa Appignanesi takes the reader through two hundred years of mad, bad and sad women and she is an expert guide. ![]()
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