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Foreign Affairs, by Alison LurieRead about the other books on the list.
This deft Pulitzer Prize-winner tells the stories of a handful of characters – Americans and British – in search of love and life in London. At first glance Virginia Miner – a 50-something American academic drawn into an affair with a tourist from Oklahoma – may not seem a promising heroine for a romance. But this modest novel has magic to work and the tale that Lurie spins is comic, touching, and true.
--Marshal Zeringue