A provocative wildly funny intellectually rigorous and engrossing novel punctuated by Siri
Hustvedt's own illustrations - a tour de force by one of America's most acclaimed and beloved
writers. Fresh from Minnesota and hungry for all New York has to offer twenty-three-year-old
S.H. embarks on a year that proves both exhilarating and frightening - from bruising encounters
with men to the increasingly ominous monologues of the woman next door. Forty years on those
pivotal months come back to vibrant life when S.H. discovers the notebook in which she recorded
her adventures alongside drafts of a novel. Measuring what she remembers against what she wrote
she regards her younger self with curiosity and often amusement. Anger too for how much has
really changed in a world where the female presidential candidate is called an abomination?
