Renata Adler's cult novel " Speedboat " (1976) was reissued last year and has caught on among a new generation of readers. It's having a long, largely deserved moment. The best thing I've read about Ms. Adler's novel came from Katie Roiphe , writing in Slate. She carefully tucked "Speedboat" alongside Joan Didion's "Play It as It Lays" and Elizabeth Hardwick's "Sleepless Nights" as a sleek '70s-era example of the "Smart Women Adrift" genre, narratives filled with "pretty yet melancholy vignettes of the state of being lost." Ms. Adler condensed her theme in "Speedboat" this way: "I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort." Catherine Lacey's searching, emotionally resonant first novel, "Nobody Is Ever Missing," is about a young woman who pulls the pin on her own life, fleeing the country rather than staying behind to witness the collateral damage. She seeks not just a divorce from her husband "but a divorce from everything, to divorce my own history; I was being pushed by currents, by… Read full this story
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