• For readers of Coetzee because of its careful, surgical dissection of human motivation, and the ethics of human relations
• For readers of Ben Lerner because of Starnone's thrilling play with narrative form, for his fascination with time and storytelling the meta-, the knowing first-person narrator, and the fascination with time in narration
• For readers of Rachel Cusk because Starnone, too, is seeking a way of storytelling that can overcome the problem
• Literary Fiction
• Domestic Drama
• Italian Fiction
KEY SELLING POINTS
• Author of National Book Award-shortlisted Trick and international bestseller Ties
• Third novel in tryptic on family relationships
• Translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Jhumpa Lahiri (has several 2021 releases)
• A novel about romantic relationships for fans of Ian McEwan and Elena Ferrante
• Lahiri and Starnone available for events, interviews
