BookBrowse Reviews Biography of X by Catherine Lacey

Journalist CM Lucca, narrator of Catherine Lacey's Biography of X, is still grieving her recently deceased wife, a famous artist known primarily by the name X, when an unauthorized biography is released. The book claims to tell the true story of X's life, the details of which have been shrouded in mystery, even for CM. Bitter and determined to set the record straight, CM begins an investigation into the woman who was her wife. Traveling across the United States and Europe, she meets a vivid cast of eccentric characters — X's friends, lovers, collaborators and family members.

The novel is a work of alternate history, set primarily in the US in the 1990s. In this universe, the southern states seceded in the 1940s after a series of progressive pieces of legislation were passed by the Roosevelt administration, all of which were spearheaded by a fictionalized version of anarchist ...