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Companion Piece by Smith, Ali

Companion Piece by Smith, Ali

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"A woman receives an unexpected call from a former classmate asking for help deciphering a puzzling interaction, and from there, Smith spins out a broader story about loneliness, refuge and freedom." --The New York Times Book Review

"Lyrical and timely...Smith's novel will push readers to consider what it means to let people into your life, even when you don't want to." --TIME

A story is never an answer. A story is always a question.

A day spent locked in a room by border officials without any explanation as to why. A riddle that seemingly has no answer: curlew or curfew, you choose. A phone call from a college friend who hasn't been in touch in years. And all of it is somehow inextricably linked to the life of a young blacksmith hounded from her trade and branded a vagrant nearly 500 years ago.

Award-winning author Ali Smith shines a guiding light through the nightmarish now with a provocative novel that intertwines our atomized present and the uncannily parallel era of the Black Plague. In the hope that our medieval past may unlock the answers we seek to understand our hazy future, Companion Piece is a kaleidoscope of human history and experience, and a stunning addition to Smith's gorgeous canon.

Author: Ali Smith
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 05/03/2022
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780593316375

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 12/01/2021 pg. 7
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2022
Booklist 04/15/2022 pg. 16
Publishers Weekly 05/02/2022
Library Journal 06/03/2022 pg. 1

About the Author
ALI SMITH is the author of many works of fiction, including, most recently, Summer, Spring, Winter, Autumn, Public library and other stories, and How to be both, which won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize, and the Costa Novel of the Year Award. Her work has four times been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Most recently, she won the George Orwell Prize for Fiction for Summer. Born in Inverness, Scotland, she lives in Cambridge, England.

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