Asymmetry: A Novel
by Lisa Halliday
Buy on AmazonA TIME and NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK of the YEAR New York Times Notable Book and Times Critic’s Top Book of 2018 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY Elle Bustle Kirkus Reviews Lit Hub NPR O, The Oprah Magazine Shelf Awareness “Asymmetry is extraordinary...Halliday has written, somehow all at once, a transgressive roman a clef, a novel of ideas and a politically engaged work of metafiction.” —Alice Gregory, The New York Times Book Review “A brilliant and complex examination of power dynamics in love and war.” —Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal “A scorchingly intelligent first novel...Asymmetry will make you a better reader, a more active noticer.…
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"Asymmetry is a novel that requires the reader to fill in some blanks. Like, what exactly do its three sections have in common? The first is about a May-December romance between a famous novelist and young woman who wants to be a writer. The second is the story of an Iraqi-American who is detained at Heathrow airport while en route to see his brother in Iraq. The third reveals the link between the two, though you can miss it if you blink. Taken as a whole, the book is at once entertaining and provocative, forcing you think about dichotomies that often dominate our lives: old vs. young, East vs. West, the powerful vs. the powerless."
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