![]() More to the point, she never lets her politics interfere with the sheer zest of her imagination. ![]() Shriver may be a contrarian-but she has a sense of humor about it. Twelve different stories unfold-and you need all 12. Indeed, by paying as much attention to what Kay or Cyril don’t do in some scenarios, she digs into corners of their characters that no single account of 'what happened' could ever reveal. She also creates a composite portrait of a married couple and their three children that, for all its contradictions, hangs together with glorious plausibility. But their exchange is actually a canny setup for a wildly inventive and sometimes hilarious novel on a sober subject. ![]() As go over the pros and cons, they sound less like characters than authorial mouthpieces. Have patience with the first chapter of Lionel Shriver’s new novel. ![]()
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