
A new novel about art, love, death, and time from the author of Motherhood and How Should a Person Be? Here we are, just living in the first draft of creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart. In this first draft, a woman named Mira...

Winner of the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award in Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize in Fiction
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vulture, The Times Literary Supplement,...

WINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION - SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - A new novel about art, love, death and time from the author of Motherhood and How Should A Person Be? "True...


The world is failing to remain a world. It is coming apart. The ice cubes are melting. Species are dying. People, too--of different things. But what if this world is just a first draft, made by some great artist in order to be destroyed?

A new novel about art, love, death and time from the author of Motherhood and How Should A Person Be? Here we are, just living in the first draft of creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart.
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