These Possible Lives

"As with the Zambreno, this is breaking form a little, but I am begging you not to let this stop you from reading this and every other Jaeggy book. If you really need to imagine this book as a novel, think of it as being narrated by a fictional character who is a very creative aspiring biographer summarizing the lives of a few different people about whom she might later write a whole biography. The slippery nature of facts is very much a theme for our era—difficult to escape and imperative to grapple with."