Claire Messud - The Woman Upstairs

The New York Times best-selling author of the literary page-turner The Emperor's Children discusses her richly drawn new novel: the riveting compulsively readable confession of a 37-year-old elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Mass, drawn into the complex world of her new neighbors -- a Lebanese scholar and professor of Ethical History, his glamourous Italian artist wife and their son -- who move in and change her life in ways she never expected.