It developed a glamorous and dangerous reputation that continued through the second World War. After WWI, the city was declared an International Zone and was jointly ruled by nine different countries.
Tangier is located on the northwestern tip of Morocco, and it’s a fitting setting for this kind of story. Do either of them honestly recall what really happened? An enticingly unsettled feeling floats over the entire narrative like the shimmery haze of a scorching day. They’re both deliciously unreliable narrators. As the women fall into old patterns, a new mystery surfaces and the knots of tension twist tighter and tighter. As she struggles with anxiety, Lucy (Alice’s old frenemy), shows up unexpectedly. They’ve had a mysterious falling out, and that conflict drives everything that befalls them.Īlice has moved to Tangier with her new husband, and she’s not adjusted well to her new life. Our two protagonists - the always audacious Lucy and the painfully diffident Alice - are former best friends who met at Bennington College.
With taut, evocative prose, it tells the story of two elusive heroines trapped in a complex relationship of love, jealousy, and betrayal. Set in the twisty alleys of a medina in 1950s Tangier, Morocco, this novel is like a Hitchcock film translated to the page.
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