In Catherine Lacey's new genre-bending novel, Biography of X, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist realizes her spouse — a fierce and narcissistic artist — was not who she believed.
served as FDR's chief of staff ; the Southern Territory, labeled a"tyrannical theocracy," and the off-the-grid"Western Territory." A violent"Reunification" of the Northern and Southern Territories has taken place, but relations remain hostile.
Feeling put off by all this experimental genre-bending? Don't be. For as much as Lacey has written a postmodern miasma of a novel about deception and the relationship of the artist to their work, she's also structured that novel in an old-fashioned way: via a-like sequence of stories.
But let's return to the beginning. In what CM calls the"boneless days" in the aftermath of of X's death, she tells us that: "It wasn't a will to live that kept me alive then, but rather a curiosity about who else might come forward with a story about my wife. ...
"The trouble with knowing people," CM says at one point,"is how the target keeps moving." The same could be said of Lacey's brilliant, destabilizing novel. Just when you think you have a handle on, it escapes the stack of assumptions where you thought you'd put it, like a profile or an obituary you'd started reading in yesterday's tossed-out paper.
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