195 pp. Kathryn Davis the author of six previous novels has received a Kafka Prize for fiction by an American woman, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2006 she won the Lannan Foundation Literary Award. "A coming-of-age-meets-dystopian-fantasy-meets-alternate-reality novel, or maybe an Ionesco-meets-Beckett-meets-Oulipo novel . . . The world [Duplex] describes has gone cuckoo while its characters' anxieties remain stubbornly, drably, daringly familiar." ― Tom Bissell, Harper's Magazine
