{"product_id":"asymmetry","title":"Asymmetry","description":"\u003cp\u003eA singularly inventive and unforgettable debut novel about love, luck, and the inextricability of life and art, from 2017 Whiting Award winner Lisa Halliday.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTold in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power, talent, wealth, fame, geography, and justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first section, Folly, tells the story of Alice, a young American editor, and her relationship with the famous and much older writer Ezra Blazer. A tender and exquisite account of an unexpected romance that takes place in New York during the early years of the Iraq War, Folly also suggests an aspiring novelist’s coming-of-age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy contrast, Madness is narrated by Amar, an Iraqi-American man who, on his way to visit his brother in Kurdistan, is detained by immigration officers and spends the last weekend of 2008 in a holding room in Heathrow. These two seemingly disparate stories gain resonance as their perspectives interact and overlap, with yet new implications for their relationship revealed in an unexpected coda.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA stunning debut from a rising literary star, Asymmetry is an urgent, important, and truly original work that will captivate any reader while also posing arresting questions about the very nature of fiction itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lisa Halliday","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43486924800169,"sku":"9781783783625","price":7.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9781783783625.jpg?v=1703032532","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/asymmetry","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}