How to be both

MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • A novel all about art's versatility, borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take. "Cements Smith’s reputation as one of the finest and most innovative of our contemporary writers. By some divine alchemy, she is both funny and moving; she combines intellectual rigor with whimsy" — The Los Angeles Review of Books One of the New York Times ’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century How to be both is a fast-moving genre-bending conv