The Idiot Authorship Constance and the women of

Constance and the women of the club are forced to confront the fact that the freedoms they gained during the war are being revoked

keeping him prisoner in her isolated house

and whether we're "normal

" --Laura Dave

questions the very nature of existence

The Idiot Authorship Constance and the women ofFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction A New York Times Book Review Notable Book Nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction "Easily the funniest book I've read this year." GQ "Masterly funny debut novel . . . Erudite but never pretentious, The Idiot will make you crave more books by Batuman." Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and