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The bride, however, was anything but thrilled. In Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt- The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age (HarperCollins), Amanda Mackenzie Stuart explains how the eighteen-year-old was railroaded into the disastrous union by her ambitious mother. But Consuelo didn’t play the martyr for long. And in this deftly contextualized account, Alva’s actions, rooted in her own unhappy marriage, take on surprising nuance. In fact, both women transcended the confines of their world: Alva went from socialite to suffragette, while Consuelo became an influential philanthropistand the inspiration for Edith Wharton’s The Buccaneersmegan o’grady

Nadine Gordimer’s latest novel, opens with this provocative question.

Paul Bannerman, a 35-year-old South African ecologist, has just undergone surgery for thyroid cancer, followed by a radioactive iodine infusion meant to destroy any stray malignant cells. After having spent his career fighting to protect the environment, Paul finds that his very body has become a toxic-waste site. He cannot embrace his wife or pick up his three-year-old son. For the four weeks of quarantine, his parents welcome him back to his childhood home, where his life in limbo begins.

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