Author of debut novel "Sympathy" considers the gendered reception of this novel amongst other factors in this exploration of the limited way the world attends to art by young women. A suitable counterpart to "We Should All Be Feminists".
An electrifying novel of blood ties, online identities, and our tormented efforts to connect in the digital ageAt twenty-three, Alice Hare leaves England for New York. She falls in love with Manhattan, and becomes fixated on Mizuko Himura, an intriguing Japanese writer whose life has strange parallels to her own.As Alice closes in on Mizuko, her 'internet twin', realities multiply and fact and fiction begin to blur. The relationship between the two women exposes a tangle of lies and sexual encounters. Three families collide as Alice learns that the swiftest answer to an ancient question - where do we come from? - can now be found online.Olivia Sudjic was born in London in 1988. She studied English Literature at Cambridge University where she was awarded the E.G. Harwood English Prize and made a Bateman Scholar. She started writing her first novel, Sympathy, in 2014.
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