The Renovation: A Novel Patrick Radden Keefe She does a double take

She does a double take -- it's him

she moved to the east coast

is an expert in restoring rare manuscripts

bedtime reading

The Renovation: A Novel Patrick Radden Keefe She does a double takeA woman discovers that her bathroom has been remodeled into a prison cellwhere she is an unlikely inmatein this surreal novel of exile, grief, memory, and migration. In Salerno, Italy, Dilara spends her days caring for her aging father and her hypochondriac husband. Since leaving her native Istanbul, shes been unable to find a jobadrift, she becomes increasingly fixated on domestic improvement, specifically on the renovation of a second bathroom. When