New York: SOHO Press, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A gripping psychological thriller. "Having taken a young Chinese woman under her wing, teacher Emma Perotti finds herself on trial for the girl's murder. Almost five years earlier, An-ling Huang walked into Emma's ESL classroom and into her family's life. Emma was drawn to the vulnerability she perceived in An-ling. An-ling, for her part, seemed to long for a surrogate mother and eagerly attached herself to Emma" even as that attachment threatens to tear Emma's family apart. INSCRIBED on the title page. 274 pp. ISBN: 978-1569474587.