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Claire Messud Knopf: The Woman Upstairs By Claire Messud Knopf, 253 pages, $30 Enlarge Image , according to Winnipeg Free Press. But when Nora Eldridge introduces herself, she is extremely angry, both at herself and the world. "Don't all women feel the same?" she asks. "The only difference is how much we know we feel it, how in touch we are with our fury." Claire Messud LISA COHEN PHOTO Book review The protagonist and narrator of this quietly affecting literary novel is a 42-year-old elementary school teacher in greater Boston, childless herself, unmarried, dutiful to job, friends and aging parents, and, in her words, "completely invisible." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.