Lives: A Reading from Three Novels

In Amor Towles’ A Gentleman in Moscow, a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel in 1920s Moscow. Set in 1944, Affinity Konar‘s Mischling, is the story of twin sisters in Auschwitz who take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. In Nathan Hill‘s debut, The Nix, a stalled writer’s mother commits a crime that sends him on a journey that will uncover long-buried secrets about the woman he thought he knew.