{"product_id":"asymmetrybooks","title":"Asymmetry","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e TOP 10 BOOK of the YEAR * \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book and \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e Critic’s Top Book of 2018\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY * \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e* NPR * \u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Asymmetry \u003c\/i\u003eis 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, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“A brilliant and complex examination of power dynamics in love and war.”\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Sam Sacks, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“A scorchingly intelligent first novel...\u003ci\u003eAsymmetry\u003c\/i\u003e will make you a better reader, a more active noticer. It hones your senses.” —Parul Seghal, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A singularly inventive and unforgettable debut novel about love, luck, and the inextricability of life and art, from 2017 Whiting Award winner Lisa Halliday.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTold in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, \u003ci\u003eAsymmetry\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA stunning debut from a rising literary star, \u003ci\u003eAsymmetry\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Halliday, Lisa","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":42272725237984,"sku":"","price":19.79,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4169056a-7ad9-4ea3-8864-3608776fcf82.jpg?v=1641308142","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/asymmetrybooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}