A review by chillcox15
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday

3.0

A solid 3.5 stars. The first section keeps ratcheting up the unspoken tension so you know that something bizarre is going to happen, but I was not expecting that second section-- and I wish it worked better for me, considering how in the bag I was for the riff on Roth/Updike style novelists at the start. I like Halliday's daringness, but that second section seems to be fighting against itself in certain ways (i.e. "Who can tell which stories?") without much of a resolution to that core conflict. It maybe requires a second reading just to see where I come down on if it melds these two plots together well enough.