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Lisa Halliday's Asymmetry is elegant, funny, ingenious, profound and wildly enjoyable. You'll read it in one sitting, only pausing now and again to check the endpapers and confirm that this is indeed a first novel. I loved, admired and envied this novel. It's a wonder -- Zadie Smith Spellbinding... A literary phenomenon -- Katy Waldman * New Yorker * Lisa Halliday's striking debut is certainly - as the title implies - a sharp examination of the unequal power dynamic between men and women, innocence and experience, fame and aspiration... Daring [with] deliciously fertile ambiguities [and] a delicately devastating irony... this is a debut asking a dizzying number of questions, many to thrilling effect. That it leaves the reader wondering is a mark of its success -- Justine Jordan * Guardian * A scorchingly intelligent first novel by Lisa Halliday, [Asymmetry] is a clever comedy of manners set in Manhattan [...] which poses deep questions about free will, fate and freedom, the all-powerful accident of one's birth and how life is alchemized into fiction... Asymmetry is not complicated, but it cannot be read complacently. Like it or not, it will make you a better reader -- Parul Shegal * New York Times * [Asymmetry] eviscerates [and] delves into power imbalances with an implacability fit for our time... Wonderfully terse, Asymmetry [is] constructed like a puzzle box, with three parts that slot together only at the end... The structural originality of Asymmetry may be startling, but the story arcs towards a gratifying catharsis -- Benjamin Evans * Observer * Absorbing [and] dazzling... As Blazer observes, fiction is one way we can get beyond the limits of our own lives to imaging the realities of others' worlds -- Stephanie Cross * Daily Mail * The rarest of literary beasts: a work with proper avant-garde credentials... A clever and provocative mix of the kind of writing that gets read as autobiographical, and the kind that doesn't -- Edmund Gordon * Sunday Times * Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday isn't just any debut. Dubbed a 'dazzling hand-grenade of a novel' [...] it's aiming to explode the power imbalances of modern life. From the personal to the political, it shines a light on disparities between male and female, East and West, old and young -and comes to a conclusion that you won't forget * Stella, Sunday Telegraph * A smart, insightful read about love, life and art * Elle * [With] images that shine as brightly as new coins... a symphony -- James Marriott * The Times * Lisa Halliday's debut novel starts like a story you've heard, only to become a book unlike any you've read. The initial mystery is how its pieces fit together; the lasting one is how she pulled the whole thing off. Deft, funny, and humane, Asymmetry is a profoundly necessary political novel about the place for art in an unjust world -- Chad Harbach, author of The Art of Fielding Delicious... Halliday is knowing - about isolation, dissatisfaction and the pain of being human -- Sarah Begley * TIME * Asymmetry is an amazing piece of work. Ms. Halliday has a unique ability to make the familiar strange, and the strange familiar. I'm struggling to think of a novel that has had a similar effect on me. Asymmetry is funny, sad, deeply humane, and clearly the product of a bold intelligence at work. One can only hope that something this good will find as wide an audience as it so obviously deserves -- Kevin Powers Stunningly adept writing used to captivating effect. A highly original, compelling and relevant book full of nuance, wit and insight. And laughs, it also has laughs -- Kirsty Young Wow. Asymmetry is a rare book in the sense that it is always shocking to read something this good and polished and fully formed, a novel that impossibly seems to be everything at once: transgressive and shocking and intimate and expansive, torn from today's headlines, signifier of the strange moment we now occupy. Somehow this book, this author has all but exploded into the world, fully fo
Lisa Halliday has worked as a freelance editor and translator in Milan, where she lives with her husband. Her short story 'Stump Louie' appeared in The Paris Review in 2005, and she received a Whiting Award for Fiction in 2017. Asymmetry is her first novel.