Real-life figures also trespass onto the pages of this biography to interact with X - who, I must remind you, is a made-up character. The fragmented biography of X that CM slowly assembles is shored up by footnotes and photographs, included here. When the novel opens, X's biography is in the early stages of being researched by her grieving widow, a woman called CM, who comes to realize that pretty much everything she thought she knew about her late wife was false. Think Cate Blanchett as Tár, except more narcicisstic and less chummy. There is almost nothing about Biography of X, as this novel is called, that welcomes a reader in - least of all, its enigmatic central character, a fierce female artist who died in 1996 and who called herself "X," as well as a slew of other names. To those readers who prize "relatability," Catherine Lacey's latest novel may as well come wrapped in a barbed wire book jacket.
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