A novelist looks back at her younger self in 1970s New York in this smart investigation of misogyny, authority and the nature of fiction
‘The book feels less like a novel and more like an intellectual reckoning’... Siri Hustvedt. Photograph: Rebecca Miller/The Observer’s latest novel describes it as a “portrait of the artist as a young woman”. Now 61, and an established author, she’s clearing out her mother’s apartment when she comes across the journal she kept aged 23, when she arrived in New York from rural Minnesota.
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