NPR/Pantheon/Vintage 
How does Scottish author Ali Smith manage to offset despair with delight even in novels that tackle serious issues such as loss, grief, war, injustice, and insidious curtailments of freedom? The answer lies partly in her fervent belief in the life-enhancing powers of decency, human connection, and art, which underpins all her work.
Along with compassion and hope, she has brought clever structural innovations and verbal playfulness to ambitious projects like her masterful Seasonal Quartet, written during and
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