The Best 19 Books to Read This August
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The Cost of Living
By Deborah Levy
144 pages;
Bloomsbury Publishing
"Chaos is supposed to be what we most fear
but ... it might be what we most want," writes
Booker Prize finalist Levy about her looming
divorce in this "working autobiography," a
slim and powerful meditation in essays.
— Natalie Beach
Published 07/27/2018
