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Praise for OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR A New York Times Book Review Notable Book “Katharine Weber delivers the goods: an unpredictable, unsentimental story driven by characters who seem more alive than on the page.… The best novels pack both an emotional and an intellectual wallop. Weber’s is one.” —W L ALLY AMB “Engaging … Ms. Weber’s nuanced renderings of childhood traumas, of families in crisis, and of Harriet’s grandmother are impressive.” —New York Times Book Review “A fine first novel … filled with hope and playfulness.” —Cosmopolitan “Weber has a gift for anchoring situation in time and place; for rapid shifts of tone; for showing how the ordinary and the extraordinary commingle in our experience.… She knows how treacherous the heart can be and also that it is our only resource.” —Boston Globe “Katharine Weber, in her stunning first novel, might be a murder-mystery author, so tight is her style.… A fascinating read.” —M S AY ARTON “Wonderfully complex characters, witty prose, ironic situations, and tragic consequences.… Weber’s control of language holds this cleverly touching book together.” —Charlotte Observer “First novels are rarely this good. Katharine Weber has produced a work that reveals an uncommon control of her craft and a mature understanding of human character and motives.… A work that makes us want to turn the pages as fast as we can to learn what will happen next to these original and interesting female characters.” —Kansas City Star “Witty, bittersweet … A meticulously drawn cast of characters, keen irony, and a flawless sense of place.” —Plain Dealer “Weber writes with captivating charm and an easy intelligence.” —Fort Worth Star-Telegram “A rock-solid novel, with impressive style and amazing detail.… More than just a beguiling narrative; Weber steps into the looking glass and pulls the reader in with her.” —Providence Sunday Journal “Tender and funny and sometimes jolting, this is a first novel of remarkable accomplishment.… Weber’s sly and prickly wit, her delight in the farcical aspects of the most tragic situations, and her sure sense of the rewards—and limits—of feminine friendship cast a life-enhancing glow over the proceedings.” —Publishers Weekly “Compelling from the outset, due in large part to an enchantingly vulnerable, articulate, clever, yet candid protagonist.” —Booklist Also by KATHARINE WEBER The Memory of All That True Confections Triangle The Little Women The Music Lesson This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Copyright © 1995 by Katharine Weber All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Broadway Paperbacks, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. www.crownpublishing.com Broadway Paperbacks and its logo, a letter B bisected on the diagonal, are trademarks of Random House, Inc. Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form in the United States by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1995, and subsequently published in paperback by Picador USA, a division of St. Martin’s Press, New York, in 1996. An excerpt from this book originally appeared in The New Yorker in January 1992. Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for previously published material: WHO CARES? (SO LONG AS YOU CARE FOR ME) (from “Of Thee I Sing”) Music and Lyrics by GEORGE GERSHWIN and IRA GERSHWIN © 1931(Renewed) WB MUSIC CORP. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission of ALFRED MUSIC PUBLISHING CO., INC. CAN’T WE BE FRIENDS? Words by PAUL JAMES, Music by KAY SWIFT © 1929 (Renewed) WB MUSIC CORP. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission of ALFRED MUSIC PUBLISHING CO., INC. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Weber, Katharine. Objects in mirror are closer than they appear / by Katharine Weber. p. cm. 1. Americans—Travel—Switzerland—Geneva—Fiction. 2. Young women—Switzerland—Geneva— Fiction. 3. Friendship—Switzerland—Geneva—Fiction. 4. Geneva (Switzerland)—Fiction. I. Title. [PS3573.E2194025 1996] 813′.54—DC20 96-59 eISBN: 978-0-307-88750-4 Cover design by Elizabeth Ackerman Cover photography: Ralph Gibson, “Bastienne,” from Infanta, © 1987 v3.1 For Nick O.l.i.h.t.s. Contents Cover Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Part I Geneva, July 3 July 4 July 9 July 13 July 17 July 19 Geneva, July 21 Part II Next Door Croup The Project Matching The New Baby Harriet the Spy November 12 Part III July 20 July 23 July 26 July 26 July 27 August 18 About the Author Always there lurked the fear that one’s own view of truth was merely a small window in a small house. —T W , The HORNTON ILDER Eighth Day
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