Over 6,000 readers on Goodreads gave Biography of X by Catherine Lacey either four or five stars. Did we read the same book…?

The story focuses on the life of an enigmatic artist, referred to as X. X was a painter, a photographer, a writer and a musician. Accomplished in all of these domains.

After X’s sudden death, her widow is overcome with grief.

Grief has a warring logic; it always wants something impossible, something worse and something better. Continue reading →