TY - BOOK AU - Dueñas,María AU - Kerrigan,Elie TI - The heart has its reasons: a novel SN - 1451668333 (hbk.) PY - 2014/// CY - New York, NY PB - Atria Books KW - Authors, Spanish KW - Fiction KW - College teachers KW - Literature KW - Research KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Barcelona (Spain) KW - California N1 - "Previously published as Misión Olvido in 2012 in Spain by Editorial Planeta"--Title page verso N2 - "A talented college professor in Madrid, Blanca Perea seems to have it all. But her world is suddenly shattered when her husband of twenty years leaves her for another woman. Questioning the life she once had and whether she truly knows herself, Blanca resolves to change her surroundings. She accepts what looks like a boring research grant in California involving an exiled Spanish writer who died decades ago. Anxious to leave her own troubled life behind, she is gradually drawn into his haunted world, with its poignant loves and unfulfilled ambitions"--Amazon.com ER -