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A singularly inventive and remarkable debut novel about love, good fortune, and the inextricability of life and art, from 2017 Whiting Prize champion Lisa Halliday. Told in three specific and uniquely engaging portions, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and maintain many of our most dramatic individual relationships: inequities in years, power, talent, riches, popularity, geography, and justice. The first section, "Folly", tells the storyline of Alice, a young North american editor, and her romantic relationship with the famous and far older article writer Ezra Blazer. A tender and exquisite consideration of an urgent romance that occurs in New York during the early on years of the Iraq Battle, "Folly" also implies 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 previous weekend of 2008 in a holding room in Heathrow. Both of these seemingly disparate tales gain resonance as their perspectives interact and overlap, with yet new implications for his or her relationship revealed in an unexpected coda. A sensational debut from a growing literary star, Asymmetry is an immediate, important, and truly original work that will captivate any listener while also posing arresting questions about the very character of fiction itself.
