About the Author:
Like her heroine, Anne Korkeakivi knows the world of foreign diplomacy. She is married to an international human rights lawyer who works for the United Nations. Korkeakivi was born and raised in New York City but currently lives in Geneva, Switzerland, with her husband and two daughters. She has also lived in France, Finland, and around the U.S. Korkeakivi is her husband's Finnish last name, by the way. Her short stories have run in The Yale Review, The Atlantic, The Bellevue Literary Review, and other magazines.
Review:
"Anne Korkeakivi's writing has all the best qualities of an Ishiguro novel. Clare, a seemingly selfless diplomat's wife, the epitome of restraint and hermetic detachment, unravels before us into a woman of dangerous allegiances, passions, and moral dilemmas, in prose that is both beautiful and razor sharp. Paris is depicted with subtle complexity, a city that reposes as it threatens, full of scorn and grace. Korkeakivi's sense of detail is remarkable while grounded in authenticity. "An Unexpected Guest" is a feast of a novel."
--George Hagen, author of "The Laments"
"Korkeakivi fluidly fuses the past and present, building a solid character in Clare and powerfully exploring whether redemption from past regrets is possible and the lengths one must go to attain it."---"Publisher's Weekly"
"In this first novel, Korkeakivi updates Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" with a new heroine....The book is as wonderfully self-possessed as it leading lady, and winningly suspenseful as well."---"Whole Living Magazine"
""An Unexpected Guest" is a quietly intelligent novel about a woman who, at long last, learns to be honest with herself."
--Yvonne Zipp, "Christian Science Monitor"
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