Biography of X — Catherine Lacey

'Brilliant, astonishing' - Chris Kraus

'Sly, brilliant, philosophically acute, bitingly funny, and a pure joy to spend hours with' - Lauren Groff

When X - the iconoclastic artist, musician and writer - dies suddenly, CM, her widow, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. The story will lead her deep into the Southern Territory - a fascist theocracy that split from the rest of the USA after World War II - before revealing the full weight of X's secrets, and the depth of her betrayal.