Publisher's Synopsis
Irenie, a young girl coming of age in upstate New York, has a secret at the core of her life. Her mother - the striking, charismatic Yasmeen - disappeared five years earlier. Her father, James, a distant, eccentric academic so bewitched by his late wife, has never spoken of this gaping absence from their lives. Yasmeenn is presumed dead, though Irenie has doubts.
