Longlisted for The Booker Prize 2025 Explorations of connection and presence drive this enigmatic, precise little web of a book. Spare, complex . . . strange, sly and self-assured. Teresas story emerges in non-linear fragments of reminiscence and notebook scribbles. . . . What seems at first a set of disparate, unpolished vignettes proves to be a masterfully unified conceit.