
And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face great a great loss.

The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves, their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her seatmate from the place. She leads her student in storytelling exercises. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens.


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