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Winner of the 2021 Edgar Award - G.P. Putnams Sons Sue Grafton Memorial AwardFinalist for the Lambda Literary AwardsAn NPR Best Book of the Year"Gripping, subtle, magnificently written." - The New York Times Book Review"A delectable page-turner . . . Vera Kelly introduces a fascinating new spy to literatures mystery canon - one we hope sticks around long beyond this snappy, intimate debut." - Entertainment WeeklyNew York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. Shes working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA.Next thing she knows shes in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. As Vera becomes more and more enmeshed with the young radicals, the fragile local government begins to split at the seams. When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake of a coup, Vera learns the Cold War makes for strange and unexpected bedfellows, and shes forced to take extreme measures to save herself.An exhilarating page-turner and perceptive coming-of-age story, Who Is Vera Kelly? introduces an original, wry, and whip-smart female spy for the twenty-first century.
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Rosalie Knecht grew up in Pennsylvania, attended Oberlin College and the City University of New York, and works in social services in New York City. She translated César Aira's The Seamstress and the Wind while teaching English in a teacher's college in Argentina. Relief Map is her first novel.
