An Unnecessary Woman Adam Silvera in the wake of his

in the wake of his friend Muzil's death

so fine as I am

" --Angeline Boulley

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

An Unnecessary Woman Adam Silvera in the wake of hisNATIONAL 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