Lonely Crowds | Stephanie Wambugu HarperOne Middle Eastern

Middle Eastern

Misty Copeland

He offers a fresh start for her mother and sisters and elusive answers about her father's disappearance

Brené Brown PhD

How do we understand ourselves when the story about who we are supposed to be is stronger than our sense of self

Lonely Crowds | Stephanie Wambugu HarperOne Middle EasternLuster meets The Idiot in this riveting debut novel about a volatile friendship between two outsiders who escape their bleak childhoods and enter the glamorous early '90s art world in New York City, where only one of them can make it. Ruth, an only child of recent immigrants to New England, lives in an emotionally cold home and attends the local Catholic girl's school on a scholarship. Maria, a beautiful orphan whose Panamanian mother dies by suicide