Fiction. African American Studies. In an age of reality TV, a husband and wife cling to Victorian notions of privacy, though doing so threatens the life of the wife. Their daughter Anna yearns for her mother's unguarded affection, and eventually learns there is value in restraint. But Anna, a Caribbean American immigrant, finds that lesson harder to accept when, eager to assimilate in her new country, she discovers that a gap yawns between her and American-born citizens. Told in spare and transcendent prose, BOUNDARIES is a riveting immigrant story, a fascinating look into the world of contemporary book publishing, a beautiful extension of the exploration of family dynamics that began in Nunez's previous novel ANNA IN-BETWEEN, and a heartwarming love story.

Author City: BROOKLYN, NY USA

Elizabeth Nunez is the award-winning author of seven novels, most recently BOUNDARIES and ANNA IN- BETWEEN, which was a New York Times Editors' Choice and was selected for the 2010 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award. She is a distinguished professor at Hunter College, CUNY, where she teaches writing and fiction.

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