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Joshua Seigi is a celebrated but reclusive author. Young but in failing health, he reluctantly admits that he can no longer live alone and launches a search for an assistant. He is dissatisfied with everyone he meets until he encounters Alma. A young woman with synthetic-looking blond hair and pale, tattooed skin, she stirs something inside him. Unaware of her torturous past and the hatred that seethes within her, he has no idea that he is bringing an enemy into his home: a virulent anti-Semite who despises him. With her unique, masterful balance of dark suspense and surprising tenderness, Joyce Carol Oates probes the tragedy of ethnic hatred and challenges accepted limits of desire.

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There is in this novel, as in so much of Oates's fiction, a dark and brooding quality, a determined and unflinching stare at the scars we carry on our souls and the desperate means by which we cling to faith and hope and love. -- Washington Post There is a showy unsqueamishness in the way Oates writes about violence...But in the world of The Tattooed Girl, violence is ubiquitous; it rules. -- New York Times Riveting and at times highly disturbing...Oates's novel builds drama and tension, turning misunderstanding and stupidity into insightful glimpses of lives we can barely fathom. Not a word is wasted. With Kate Fleming's reading, the book builds to almost thriller intensity and might well be appreciated by listeners who would normally shun more literary works and writers. Essential for all collections. -- Library Journal

Riveting and at times highly disturbing...Oates's novel builds drama and tension, turning misunderstanding and stupidity into insightful glimpses of lives we can barely fathom. Not a word is wasted. With Kate Fleming's reading, the book builds to almost thriller intensity and might well be appreciated by listeners who would normally shun more literary works and writers. Essential for all collections. -- Library Journal There is in this novel, as in so much of Oates's fiction, a dark and brooding quality, a determined and unflinching stare at the scars we carry on our souls and the desperate means by which we cling to faith and hope and love. -- Washington Post There is a showy unsqueamishness in the way Oates writes about violence...But in the world of The Tattooed Girl, violence is ubiquitous; it rules. -- New York Times

"Riveting and at times highly disturbing...Oates's novel builds drama and tension, turning misunderstanding and stupidity into insightful glimpses of lives we can barely fathom. Not a word is wasted. With Kate Fleming's reading, the book builds to almost thriller intensity and might well be appreciated by listeners who would normally shun more literary works and writers. Essential for all collections. -- ""Library Journal"" There is a showy unsqueamishness in the way Oates writes about violence...But in the world of The Tattooed Girl, violence is ubiquitous; it rules. -- ""New York Times"" There is in this novel, as in so much of Oates's fiction, a dark and brooding quality, a determined and unflinching stare at the scars we carry on our souls and the desperate means by which we cling to faith and hope and love. -- ""Washington Post"""

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Joyce Carol Oates is an award-winning author of fiction, nonfiction, short stories, plays, and novellas. She is the 2019 recipient of the $10,000 Jerusalem Prize, given to international writers whose body of work assert the freedom of the individual in society. She is also a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, among other major awards. Anna Fields (1965-2006), winner of more than a dozen Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award in 2004, was one of the most respected narrators in the industry. Trained at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, she was also a director, producer, and technician at her own studio, Cedar House Audio.

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