How To Be Both

Passionate, Compassionate, Vitally Inventive, And Scrupulously Playful, Ali Smith’s Novels Are Like Nothing Else. How To Be Both Is A Novel All About The Versatility Of Art. Borrowing From Painting’s Fresco Technique To Make An Original Literary Double-take, It’s A Fast-moving, Genre-bending Conversation Among Forms, Times, Truths, And Fictions. There’s A Renaissance Artist Of The 1460s. There’s The Child Of A Child Of The 1960s. Two Tales Of Love And Injustice Twist Into A Singular Yarn Where Time Gets Timeless, Structure Gets Playful, Knowing Gets Mysterious, Fictional Gets Real—and All Life’s “givens” Get A Second Chance.