Life Is Everywhere: A Novel,Used

A virtuosic, radical reimagining of the systems novel by a rampaging, mirthful genius (Elizabeth McKenzie).Everything that happened was repetition. But it was repetition with a difference. So she dragged along in a spiral, trusting to this form.Manhattan, 2014. Its an unseasonably warm Thursday in November and Erin Adamo is locked out of her apartment. Her husband has just left her and meanwhile her keys are in her coat, which she abandoned at her parents apartment when she exited middinner after her fatheronce againlost control.Erin takes refuge in the library of the university where she is a grad student. Her bag contains two manuscripts shes written, along with a monograph by a faculty member whos recently become embroiled in a bizarre scandal. Erin isnt sure what shes doing, but a small, mostly unconscious part of her knows: within these documents is a key shes needed all along.With unflinching precision, Life Is Everywhere captures emotional events that hover fitfully at the borders of visibility and intelligibility, showing how the past lives on, often secretly and at the expense of the present. Its about one person on one evening, reckoning with heartbreaka story that, to be fully told, unexpectedly requires many others, from the history of botulism to an enigmatic surrealist prank. Multifarious, mischievous, and deeply humane, Lucy Ivess latest masterpiece rejoices in what a novel, and a self, can carry.