A Carnivore's Inquiry

From a PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author, The Caprices , seduces readers with a thriller praised as “dazzling . . . lovely, literate and deeply unnerving” ( The New York Times Book Review ) .   When we meet Katherine, the winning—and rather disturbing—twenty-three-year-old narrator, she has just left Italy and arrived in New York City, but what has propelled her there is a mystery. She soon strikes up an affair with a middle-aged Russian émigré novelist she meets on the subwa