TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lacey,Catherine
TI  - Biography of X: a novel 
SN  - 9780374606176
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Artists
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Widows
KW  - Secrecy
KW  - Grief
KW  - Lesbians
KW  - Alternative histories (Fiction)
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Queer fiction
KW  - Lesbian fiction
KW  - Novels
KW  - LGBTQ+
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-389)
N2  - "When X - an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter - falls dead in her office, her widow, wild with grief and refusing everyone's good advice, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognized as a crucial creative force of her era, she kept a tight grip on her life story. Not even CM, her wife, knew where X had been born, and in her quest to find out, she opens a Pandora's box of secrets, betrayals, and destruction. All the while, she immerses herself in the history of the Southern Territory, a fascist theocracy that split from the rest of the country after World War II, as it is finally, in the present day, forced into an uneasy reunification." -- Publisher annotation
ER  -