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“Thanks for asking. I’ve just picked up a copy of Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake. I loved—loved—her earlier novel of strip bars and women’s prisons, The Mars Room, which fizzed with life and humour despite its sometimes bleak subject matter. This new novel follows a female American spy as she infiltrates a French eco-terrorist group, was an instant New York Times bestseller on its release in September, and it has already been shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize.” Read more...
Cal Flyn, Five Books Editor
