Songbird: A Novel by Michael Polowetzky (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781524573751)

"All these nasty things were going on in my own country, Mme. Castellane!" elaborated the protégé moments later, appalled by revelations read in La Croix about the authoritarian domestic policy long implemented by her native land's former government. One which she, like it or not, as daughter of the minister of defense, engaged to the premier was an ancillary member too.

"I didn't know any of this was happening. And right under my nose too! Well, if I wasn't naïve, I was awesome, really awesome--uninformed!"