
"A clever and delightfully complicated debut...Each bend in this story raises more questions than are answered, in the best of ways and right to the end."--San Francisco Chronicle Any student of narrative would agree that Anna Brisker, former star of the...

"A clever and delightfully complicated debut...Each bend in this story raises more questions than are answered, in the best of ways and right to the end."--San Francisco Chronicle Any student of narrative would agree that Anna Brisker, former star of the...



In this "deliciously funny, sharp, and sincere" debut (Helen Oyeyemi), a young graduate student writing about -- and desperately searching for -- inspiration stumbles upon it in the unlikeliest of places.Anna Brisker is a twenty-nine-year-old graduate student in English...