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"Kate Fleming certainly delineates the two characters.... Her Alma is affecting, barely verbal but never without a hint of menace." --AudioFile Magazine

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.

About the Author: Joyce Carol Oates has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and the New York Times bestseller, The Falls.

About the Performer: Kate Fleming trained at Actor's Theatre of Louisville and spent a number of years performing in Washington, D.C. Now in Seattle, she's most at home behind a microphone. In addition to the more than one hundred audiobook titles she's read, Kate lends her voice to Public Television, a number of CD-ROM games, and commercial work. Kate is a regular reader for Sound Library®