![]() This strong setup is anchored by Shipstead’s sensitive portrait of the couple’s uneasy relationship and their complex friendship with Southern California neighbors Sandy and Gary Wheelock, whose daughter Chloe is Harry’s age. The rest of Part I depicts their tense marriage-scarred by Joan’s bereavement over leaving ballet-from son Harry’s infancy through the mid-1980s. She’s also pregnant after a summer visit to Chicago to seduce her high school pal Jacob. ![]() ![]() When we meet Joan in September 1977, she’s tired of her going-nowhere career in the ballet corps of a prestigious New York company, where she’s primarily known as the discarded lover of star performer Arslan Rusakov. ![]() After satirizing privileged WASPs in her prize-winning first novel ( Seating Arrangements, 2012), Shipstead investigates another rarefied world: ballet. ![]()
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