Asymmetry - Lisa Halliday

In this distinctive and original debut, the two strands follow a young woman's New York-based affair with a famous, older writer, and an Iraqi-American economist's detainment on the way to Kurdistan. A sense of contemporaneity comparable to Ben Lerner and Rachel Cusk

In New York, Alice, a young editor, begins an affair with Ezra Blazer, a world-famous, much older writer. At Heathrow airport, Amar, an Iraqi-American economist en route to Kurdistan, is detained by immigration. Somehow their lives are connected, in this unconventional love story that has things to say about all of contemporary life.