It can be hard to know what to expect next from Pulitzer-prize nominated novelist Mary Doria Russell. Her books blend religion with anthropology, biology with science-fiction, and often embraces controversial moments in history. Her latest work is a simple story set in a complicated place and features an American schoolteacher who finds herself in Cairo during the 1921 Peace Conference that led to the creation of the modern Middle East.
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Author Mary Doria Russell
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author "Dreamers of the Day" (Random House)
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