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Within the roiling temperature of the summer of 1977, 11-year-old Mira enters the high-stakes world of NEW YORK ballet, a fiercely competitive world of struggle, obsession, interest for beauty - then one sinister that will struggle her, protect her, and eventually take her innocence. After her parents' divorce and a youth spent between her father's tony Upper East Aspect dwelling and her mother's disordered Brooklyn habitat, young Mira becomes fascinated with the perfectionism, ability, and promise of glory that ballet offers. Over the course of four years, she hones her talent, becoming a dancer for Balanchine - one of "Mr. B's girls" - eventually appealing to the attention of 47-year-old Maurice, a reclusive, charismatic balletomane who haunts the city's boogie studios and needs the young young lady under his wing. As Mira plunges more deeply into the ballet world, her relationship with Maurice intensifies, isolating her and taking her to darker and darker places within herself. In the present day, Kate, a professor of boogie at a Midwestern college, embarks over a high-risk affair with a student that threatens to obliterate her profession and upend the life she's painstakingly created for her reinvented self applied. When she gets a notice from a man she's long thought dead, Kate is hurled back again to the dramas of an past she thought she had left out. This enthralling literary debut is told in interweaving narratives that move between previous and present, illuminating the costs and privileges of ambition and excellence and if the sacrifices we make for an ideal destroy us - or save us.
