The Index of Self-Destructive Acts

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A Best Book of the Year at Kirkus, BuzzFeed, The Christian Science Monitor, Library Journal, and more “A significant novel, beautifully crafted and deeply felt. Beha creates a high bonfire of our era's vanities. . . . This is a novel to savor.” —Colum McCann What makes a life, Sam Waxworth sometimes wondered—self or circumstance? On the day Sam Waxworth arrives in New York to write for the Interviewer, a street-corner preacher declares that the wo