
Highly praised for her recent, decidedly nonlinear Outline Trilogy, Cusk here rediscovers the joys of plot.

Readers need not know anything about that literary-history byway, however, to enjoy this brooding tale.
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Lawrence’s famously fraught visit with Mabel Dodge Luhan in New Mexico, Cusk chronicles a fictional woman’s attempt to find meaning in other people’s art.
