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Despite her husband’s cautions, she soon becomes entangled in her clients’ struggles: Alfred’s nightmares stir up her own buried memories, and an impulsive attempt to help a Kurdish poet leads to a risky encounter and a reckless plan.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eAs ill-fated decisions stack up, jeopardizing the nameless narrator’s marriage and mental health, she takes a spontaneous trip to reunite with her mother in Albania, where her life in the United States is put into stark relief. When she returns to face the consequences of her actions, she must question what is real and what is not.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eRuminative and propulsive, Ledia Xhoga’s debut novel Misinterpretation interrogates the darker legacies of family and country, and the boundary between compassion and self-preservation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e\"Misinterpretation subtly blurs the distinction between help and harm. 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Olana, or rather the narrator of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTidal Lock\u003c\/em\u003e, who is \"sometimes\" called Olana, as she explains to us, exists in a similar orbit with her own traumatic memories of childhood that remain inaccessible to her. She can circle them again and again, but like the dark side of the moon they remain out of reach for her. This results in a harrowing story of a young woman trying to solve her father's mysterious disappearance years before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis slim but weighty novel—which consists of 265 shard-like, titled passages divided into four parts— creates an arc of psychological suspense: the narrator's trauma is gradually revealed to us as she herself uncovers it. A shadowy landscape surrounding her sharpens the mystery: Is Olana's father dead or just missing? Where is Olana exactly—does the city she thinks she is in truly exist, or is it only in her head? And who is this woman who claims to be her mother? 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Brilliant and heartbreaking, it is the best, most inventive novel I’ve read in ages.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e—Margaret McMullan, author of Aftermath and Where the Angels Lived\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e\"If Hill's Sea of Hooks reads like updated Proust then Tidal Lock is doing something like that to Beckett. 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I absolutely love this book.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e—Sharma Shields, author of The Cassandra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLindsay Hill was born in San Francisco and graduated from Bard College. Since 1974 he has published six books of poetry and his work has appeared in many literary journals.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSea of Hooks,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ehis first novel and the product of nearly twenty years' work, was published by McPherson in 2013. 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