Genre-bending narrative structure offers a fresh reading experience
Blends two distinct stories for a layered, multidimensional plot
Draws inspiration from art and literature for imaginative world-building
Explores themes of love, injustice, and the human condition for deep emotional resonance
Playful and compassionate writing style keeps readers engaged
Summarized by Shop
How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions.
There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and inju
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