«Iris Vegan, a young, impoverished graduate student from the Midwest, finds herself entangled with four powerful but threatening characters as she tries to adjust to life in New York City. Mr. Morning, an inscrutable urban recluse, employs Iris to tape-record verbal descriptions of objects that belonged to a murder victim. George, a photographer, takes an eerie portrait of Iris, which then acquires a strange life of its own, appearing and disappearing without warning around the city. After a series of blinding migraines, Iris ends up in a hospital room with Mrs. O., a woman who has lost her mind and memory to a stroke, but who nevertheless retains both the strength and energy to torment her fellow patient. And finally, there is Professor Rose, Iris’s teacher and eventually her lover. While working with him on the translation of a German novella called The Brutal Boy, she discovers in its protagonist, Klaus, a vehicle for her own transformation and ventures out into the city again – this time dressed as a man.» (from sirihustvedt.net)

It reads a bit like an auto-biography, perhaps it is one, partly. Siri is not so far from Iris, as Hustvedt named her alter ego. I even suspect that Iris has been Siris primal name ;)
Anyway, it's her first novel and as oscillating as the writer herself, with her changing identities and sensitive nature. Weird tales from the life of an impoverished student in search for her identity.

another book from rastaprincess' wishlist ,,,

Thank you spy-there for sending this book ! I look forward to reading it, possibly during my travels in march

ETA: I was really curious about this book as I had read another one by the same author that I enjoyed very, very much. But I was a bit disappointed by this one: I could not really grasp the book and the main character

released on the exchange bookshelf of his small hotel. the only english book among french ones. enjoy!

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