![]() In the second part of the novel, Smith veers back to the 14th century, recounting the story of Francesco del Cossa, a female artist who worked all her life disguised as a man, and whose work inexplicably and obsessively George’s mother is drawn to during the last few weeks before her death. The first half of the novel is about George, a highly intelligent and imaginative teenage girl living in Cambridge with her father and younger brother, mourning in an intriguing variety of ways the recent death of her journalist/thinker/activist mother. ![]() Written with a fine sense of boldness in a sardonic tone that often masks unexpected poignancy, How to be Both recounts the stories of two women in two different eras. In her audaciously inventive novel, How to be Both, Scottish writer Ali Smith, does, I think, the same. ![]() “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free,” the 18th-century sculptor Michelangelo wrote in a letter to his friend, the Italian poet Benedetto Varchi. ![]()
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