A nameless narrator attempts to understand Gertrude Stein in Deborah Levy’s new novel

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Deborah Levy pulls off something wonderful in My Year in Paris With Gertrude Stein. Her latest book, which she calls “a fiction” rather than “a novel,” involves a woman struggling to write an essay about the unconventional modernist writer. What she comes up with is a delightful amalgam of a highly subjective literary biography and an urban caper in the City of Light, brightly seasoned with wit, wisdom and insightful literary criticism.

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