Big Kiss, Bye-Bye by Claire-Louise Bennett

Big Kiss, Bye-Bye by Claire-Louise BennettThe things that hold life in place have been lifted off and put away. Uprooted by circumstance from city to deep countryside, a woman lives in temporary limbo, visited by memories of all shes left behind. The most insistent are those of Xavier, who has always been certain he knows her better than anyone, better than she knows herself. Xavier, whom she still loves but no longer desires, a displacement he has been unable to accept. An unexpected letter

and they are ruthless

but there's always Cheryl in the moonlight and her deck of tarot cards

Zero-Sum reinforces Oates's standing as a literary treasure and an artist of the mysterious interior life

blundering from disaster to disaster

got some theories about the roots of the Irish language that are going to blow your head off

When she stumbles upon this fact she becomes

At a star-studded political fundraiser in a Los Angeles mansion

warrior poet'

but that doesn’t stop her from loving the place and the people that make it

fact-packed book

Kirkegaard and Freud

author of The Wren