Suzanne Toren
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres and the New York Times best-selling Last Hundred Years Trilogy, a captivating, brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animals--and a young boy--whose lives intersect in Paris. Paras is a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. At dusk, one afternoon she pushes open the door of her stall--she's a curious filly--and, after traveling through the night, arrives by chance...
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Vienna Minna Bernays, an overeducated lady's companion with a sharp wit, is abruptly fired, yet again. On the street and out of options, she turns to her sister, Martha, for help. Martha has her own problems with six young children and an absent, disinterested husband -- Sigmund Freud, a struggling professor. Curious, engaging, and passionate Minna is fascinated by Freud's work, and they soon embark on what is at first simply an intellectual courtship...