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Budapest is a city of secrets, a place where everything is opaque and nothing is as it seems. It is to this enigmatic city that a young American couple, Annie and Will, move with their infant son, shortly after the fall of the Communist regime. Annie hopes to escape the ghosts from her past; Will wants to take his chance as an entrepreneur in Hungary's newly developing economy. But only a few months after moving there, they receive a secretive request from friends in the US to check up on an elderly stranger who also has recently arrived in Budapest. When they realize that his sole purpose for coming there is to exact revenge on a man who he is convinced seduced and then murdered his daughter, Will insists they have nothing to do with him. Annie, however, unable to resist anyone she feels may need her help, soon finds herself enmeshed in the old man's plan, caught up in a scheme that will end with death.



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Jessica Keener

Jessica Keener's debut novel, Night Swim, was a national bestseller, widely praised by reviewers including The New York Times, which called Night Swim "an earnest debut" and "moving." The Boston Globe said "Keener perfectly captures a certain kind of 1970s adolescence," and Booklist said "this memorable debut will strike a universal chord with readers." Night Swim reached the top #10 paid bestseller lists on Amazon.Her latest novel, Strangers in Budapest, was chosen as a "Best New Novel" by Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, Chicago Magazine, and was an IndieNext pick in 2017 2018. It reached #2 in Jewish Historical Fiction (paid Amazon bestseller list) and landed on the Southern Independent Bestseller list. Hadassah magazine called it a "haunting, beautifully written story," and "A fabulously complex and mysterious tale," writes New York Journal of Books. Her collection of stories, Women In Bed, was chosen as one of ten winter reads by Shape Magazine; and one of 12 best fall reads by Bettyconfidential.com editors and lauded by National Book Circle Critics award winner, Edith Pearlman who wrote: "Jessica Keener is a master of immediacy."For more than a dozen years, Keener's feature articles have appeared in The Boston Globe; O, The Oprah Magazine, Coastal Living, Design New England. She co-authored Time to Make the Donuts with William Rosenberg, founder of the worldwide coffee and donut franchise. Her fiction has been recognized in The Pushcart Prize under "Outstanding Writers," and won Redbook magazine's second prize. She was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist's Grant and was a finalist in Breadloaf's Bakeless novel competition.



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