Strange Loops
Book description
"Enthralling. . . . A story that burns with intensity and daring." —Iain Reid
A propulsive novel about the power and paradoxes of desire, from the acclaimed author of The Amateurs.
As small children, Francine and her twin Philip shared a seemingly unbreakable bond—but in adolescence the connection frayed, and…
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1 author picked Strange Loops as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
All our lives are shaped by the things we desire, what happens when we get them and when we don’t, and the loops and patterns we get tangled up in as we do.
In Liz Harmer’s Strange Loops, twins Francine and Philip suffer the after-effects of what each of them feels is the other’s betrayal. It’s a novel about intimacy, sex, faith, acceptance, and it burns and pulses and slithers.
That thing great master sculptors could do, where they could make cold, hard marble look like soft, pliable flesh? Here Harmer does that with words, and it conjures similar feelings…
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