![]() ![]() “In Léger’s hands, desolation can reveal a woman in all her multiplicity-in her ugliness and abasement and determined self-destruction, seemingly ground down to the nubs of her sorrow, but ultimately emerging with a strange richness, full of haunted persistence, droll knowingness, untamed desires, and hardscrabble resilience.” -Leslie Jamison, Bookforum ![]() ![]() In the end, the most original performance here is Léger’s, and it is undeniably virtuosic.” -Eula Biss, The New Yorker “With mirrors and lenses, with echoes and silences, Léger’s books suggest that we may write and perform the stories of our lives, but our roles have also been written for us, and have already been performed by other women, whose experiences we may recognize as our own. ![]()
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