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- THE EXPATRIATES Set in present-day Hong Kong, The Expatriates follows the lives of three women. An unspeakable tragedy leaves twenty-something Mercy with a crippling personal inertia, and Margaret, a mother of three, numb and unable to heal. In the same small expatriate community, Hilary tries to distract herself from a marriage gone stale by providing piano lessons for a local orphan, only to find her actions openly criticized on an anonymous online forum. The individual, sometimes overlapping perspectives of Mercy, Margaret and Hilary are woven together, exposing the insularity and complex privilege of the expatriate world, whilst also revealing the fragility of a woman's position in the world. When the women are struck by tragedy, each of them realizes how shockingly dependent they were upon conforming to the unspoken rules of their milieu. In Hong Kong, without speaking Cantonese or having a job (it is almost always the husband who precipitates the move), these women find themselves, almost unexpectedly, stripped of their former identities and living in a land of country clubs and housemaids. Cut off from family, friends, and jobs, they find themselves in a world where the old rules no longer apply. The Expatriates is a novel about overpowering grief, the transformative power of forgiveness and how finding oneself in a strange land can be the best way to find one's true self. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~­~~~~ LARGE Paperback, Good, creasing on spine, tiny tear on bottom 25 x pages as photos HAPPY TO COMBINE POSTAGE!!! Please check out my other listings! ESTIMATE STANDARD POSTAGE ONLY. Happy to give you a quote, feel free to message me (****DEPENDING on size, NO more than 3kg****) For 2 - 3 books - $3.50 - $6.50 For 4 - 7 books - $6.50 - $8.50 Pick up at ALBANY North Shore. PAYMENT WITHIN 5 DAYS. THANKS janice yk lee janice y.k lee