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Finalist for the 2025 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION and the ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD IN FICTION. Longlisted for the 2025 JOYCE CAROL OATES LITERARY PRIZE, the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE FICTION PRIZE and the CARNEGIE MEDAL 2025. Named a Best Book of 2024 by TIME , NPR, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE NEW YORK POST, ELECTRIC LITERARTURE, OPRAH DAILY and more! 'I LOVED this fresh, funny story . . . A true page-turner' Daily Mail 'Hilarious' Raven Leilani, author of Luster '[A] gem from Danzy Senna . . . perceptive and bitingly funny' Vanity Fair Jane has high hopes that her life is about to turn around. After a long, precarious stretch bouncing among sketchy rentals and sublets, she and her family are living in luxury for a year, house-sitting in the hills above Los Angeles. The gig magically coincides with Jane's sabbatical, giving her the time and space she needs to finish her second novel-a centuries-spanning epic her artist husband, Lenny, dubs her 'mulatto War and Peace.' Finally,