pbFrom the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, iParadei disturbs and defines the novel.b pMidway through his life, an artist begins to paint upside down. Eventually, he paints his wife upside down. He also makes her ugly. The paintings are a great success. pIn Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street. Her attacker flees, but not before turning around to contemplate her victim, like an artist stepping back from a canvas. pWhen a mother dies, her children confront her legacy the stories she told the roles she assigned to them the ways she withheld her love. Her death is a kind of freedom. pAn artist takes on a series of pseudonyms to conceal his work from his mother and father. His brother does the opposite. They share the same parents, but they've inherited different things. piParadei is a story that confronts and demolishes the conventions of storytelling. It surges past the limits of identity, character, and plot to tell a true story--about a