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A couple travel to a strange, snowy city to adopt a baby, who they hope will resurrect their marriage. They check into the deserted Grand Imperial Hotel where they are helped and hampered by the people they meet. Nothing is as it seems, and as they endure the cold the less they know about their marriage, themselves, and life itself.
A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life. In each of these people the woman finds a common need: the urge to talk about themselves and their experiences. The narrator orchestrates this chorus of voices as a passive listener, until one of them makes an extraordinary request, drawing her into a transformative experience of her own.
For fans of <i>Exit West </i>and <i>The Underground Railroad</i> and from the widely acclaimed author of <i>American War </i>comes a profoundly moving novel examining the global refugee crisis through a child's lens.