Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

From Scribner Book Company *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKER PRIZE * Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by LitHub, The Millions, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and more! "At last I get to say how deeply, madly, irrecoverably I loved Creation Lake...it was all stylish and cool, and then somehow the book struck a blow to my heart." --Louise Erdrich, Kirkus From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and "one of the most gifted authors of her generation" (The New York Times Book Review), comes a new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France--a propulsive page-turner of glittering insights and dark humor. Creation Lake is a novel about a secret agent, a thirty-four-year-old American woman of ruthless tactics, bold opinions, and clean beauty, who is sent to do dirty work in France. "Sadie Smith" is how the narrator introduces herself to her lover, to the rural commu