Liberty Street Thriller and on the malleable contours

and on the malleable contours of a national narrative still taking hold

Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail

The Idiot will make you crave more books by Batuman

and codes of behaviour

“Eli Harwood teaches the essentials of attachment

Liberty Street Thriller and on the malleable contoursINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER. From the #1 bestselling Canadian author of Looking for Jane comes a riveting novel about one journalist's harrowing journey into an infamous real life 1960s women's prisonand the detective who uncovers her story decades later. Toronto, 1961: Emily Radcliffe works as an editorial assistant at Chatelaine magazine, surrounded by the best female reporters in the country, whose articles tackle the controversial topics no other