Daphne Kalotay
Blue Hours: A Novel.
TriQuaterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2019. First printing. 9780810140561 302 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is new.
"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."