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When Sabine, the devoted assistant of famed magician Parsifal, learns of her husband's death, she is left to manage his personal affairs. Though they had been married for only months, Parsifal’s passing devastates her. Seeking answers, Sabine discovers that Parsifal had a mother and two sisters in Alliance, Nebraska, a fact he had concealed while his political career kept him in Los Angeles. Traveling to the Wind‑battered plains of Nebraska, she confronts the past that shaped her former husband’s life, faces the estranged family he abandoned, and unexpectedly finds her own strength and capacity for love.
First publish date: 1997
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: Ann Patchett
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