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"It was probably because I got so often recinded from Cambridge once i was young i loved it in so far as i have . . . " So begins this novel-from-life by the best-selling author of Woman, Interrupted, an exploration of memory and nostalgia set in the 1950s one of the academics and designers of Cambridge, Massachusetts. London, Florence, Athens: Susanna, the precocious narrator of Cambridge, would prefer to be home than in virtually any of these places. Uprooted from the streets around Harvard Square, she seems lost and excluded in every the locations to which her father's profession takes the family. She returns with relief-but soon enough miracles if outsiderness may be her permanent condition.Written with a sharpened eye for the pretensions-and charms-of the intellectual classes, Cambridge catches the mores of a time now past, the normal lives of incredible people in one part of America, and the delights, anxieties, and longings of childhood.
