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A mystery linking Manhattan circa 1991 to eastern Afghanistan in 2012, Blue Hours tells of a life-changing friendship between two memorable heroines. When we first meet Mim, she is a recent college graduate who has disavowed her lower-middle-class roots to befriend Kyra, a dancer and daughter of privilege, until calamity causes their estrangement. Twenty years later, Kyra has gone missing from her NGO's headquarters in Jalalabad, and Mim - now a recluse in rural New England - embarks on a journey to find her.
Anchored by an uninvited voyage into an extraordinary place, with a love story at its core, Blue Hours combines the adventure and moral complexity of Lillian Hellman's Julia and Ann Patchett's State of Wonder to tell a global story at an intimate level. In its ethical provocations, Blue Hours becomes an unexpected page-turner, confronting America's role in the conflicted, interconnected world.
A mystery linking Manhattan circa 1991 to eastern Afghanistan in 2012, Blue Hours tells of a life-changing friendship between two memorable heroines. When we first meet Mim, she is a recent college graduate who has disavowed her lower-middle-class roots to befriend Kyra, a dancer and daughter of privilege, until calamity causes their estrangement. Twenty years later, Kyra has gone missing from her NGO's headquarters in Jalalabad, and Mim - now a recluse in rural New England - embarks on a journey to find her.
Anchored by an uninvited voyage into an extraordinary place, with a love story at its core, Blue Hours combines the adventure and moral complexity of Lillian Hellman's Julia and Ann Patchett's State of Wonder to tell a global story at an intimate level. In its ethical provocations, Blue Hours becomes an unexpected page-turner, confronting America's role in the conflicted, interconnected world.
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My favorite novels tell big stories through small moments. Blue Hours is about an intimate friendship between two young women who don't behave as they're expected or supposed to. I wanted to portray the complexity of female relationships beyond the usual rivalries or petty jealousies while, on a broader thematic level, grappling with questions of imperialism and self-determination. Mim and Kyra are inquisitive, courageous, intelligent, and flawed. Their lives extend beyond the domestic, beyond the parameters of the so-called "marriage plot," beyond their wifedom or motherhood. Their story allowed me to tell a larger one, about Western paternalism abroad and patriarchy at home.
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Daphne Kalotay's books include the award-winning novels Sight Reading and Russian Winter and the fiction collection Calamity and Other Stories, shortlisted for the Story Prize.Published in 20+ languages, her work has received fellowships from theChristopher Isherwood Foundation, MacDowell, and Yaddo, among others. She haswritten for the New York Times BookReview and Poets & Writers,and her interviews with Mavis Gallant can be read in the Paris Review's Writers-At-Work series. She lives in Somerville,Massachusetts.
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