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Simon & Schuster
February 2018
On Sale: February 6, 2018
288 pages ISBN: 150116676X EAN: 9781501166761 Kindle: B074ZDRGBC Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction
A singularly inventive and unforgettable debut novel
about love, luck, and the inextricability of life and
art, from 2017 Whiting Award winner Lisa Halliday. Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections,
Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain
many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in
age, power, talent, wealth, fame, geography, and justice.
The first section, “Folly,” tells the story of Alice, a
young American editor, and her relationship with the
famous and much older writer Ezra Blazer. A tender and
exquisite account of an unexpected romance that takes
place in New York during the early years of the Iraq War,
“Folly” also suggests an aspiring novelist’s coming-of-
age. By contrast, “Madness” is narrated by Amar, an
Iraqi-American man who, on his way to visit his brother
in Kurdistan, is detained by immigration officers and
spends the last weekend of 2008 in a holding room in
Heathrow. These two seemingly disparate stories gain
resonance as their perspectives interact and overlap,
with yet new implications for their relationship revealed
in an unexpected coda. A stunning debut from a rising literary star, Asymmetry
is an urgent, important, and truly original work that
will captivate any reader while also posing arresting
questions about the very nature of fiction itself
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