{"product_id":"9781501166785","title":"Asymmetry: A Novel","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\u003cp\u003eTold in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, \u003ci\u003eAsymmetry\u003c\/i\u003e explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power, talent, wealth, fame, geography, and justice. The 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. By 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\u003cp\u003eA stunning debut from a rising literary star, \u003ci\u003eAsymmetry\u003c\/i\u003e 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":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049647194352,"sku":"9781501166785","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781501166785_p0.jpg?v=1763707340","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781501166785","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}