Asymmetry

In this distinctive and original debut, the two strands follow a young woman's New York-based affair with a famous, older writer, and an Iraqi-American economist's detainment on the way to Kurdistan. A sense of contemporaneity comparable to Ben Lerner and Rachel Cusk.

Lisa Halliday has worked as a freelance editor and translator in Milan, where she lives with her husband. Her short story 'Stump Louie' appeared in The Paris Review in 2005, and she received a Whiting Award for Fiction in 2017. Asymmetry is her first novel.