April 21, 2026
Estate, by Cynthia Zarin (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). The text of this slim, compressed novel is a letter written by Caroline-a New Yorker who will be familiar to readers of Zarin’s 2024 novel “Inverno“-to her paramour, a man who is also seeing two other women. A wry spin on an infatuated lover’s monologue, Caroline’s letter is a skein offree-associative thoughts-about her children, about the husband from whom she’s separated, about whatever springs to mind.It’s all in elliptical, finespun service to Caroline’s ambition: to understand “how I had become the person who might write such a letter, and behave in such a way, behavior of which I deeply disapproved.”
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