Biography of X

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Lacey, Catherine	4-week checkout	Due 05-15-2024
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"When X - an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter - falls dead in her office, her widow, wild with grief and refusing everyone’s good advice, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognized as a crucial creative force of her era, she kept a tight grip on her life story. Not even CM, her wife, knew where X had been born, and in her quest to find out, she opens a Pandora’s box of secrets, betrayals, and destruction. All the while, she immerses herself in the history of the Southern Territory, a fascist theocracy that split from the rest of the country after World War II, as it is finally, in the present day, forced into an uneasy reunification." -- Publisher annotation.

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Great concept, too long submitted by glwwg on August 18, 2023, 7:42am This book was soooo promising; I love alternate history and weird art fictions. But it dragged so much in the middle with endless descriptions of X’s antics, and the book lost its purpose.