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FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE AND THE CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY BARACK OBAMA, THE WASHINGTON POST , THE NEW YORKER , NPR, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, VOGUE , TIME MAGAZINE , MARIE CLAIRE , THE LOS ANGELES TIMES , THE GUARDIAN AND MORE! “A tightly wound family drama that reads like a psychological thriller."—NPR One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love. Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, young—young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewri