TagLisa Halliday

I had to think on this novel for a while. “Asymmetry” was a darling of the literary media when it appeared in 2018. The New Yorker called it a “literary phenomenon,” The New York Times included the novel on its list of top books for the year, as did Barak Obama. Of course I had to find out what the fuss was all about. My conclusion is as asymmetrical as the novel itself: I...