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devoted to this question.
Equal parts suspenseful and
dreamlike, The Third Hotel is
a vivid and captivating novel
about how well we can actually
know anyone.
 SOCIAL

CREATURE BY TARA

ISABELLA BURTON (Doubleday,

$27 ) When Louise, an aspiring 29-year-old writer, meets
Lavinia, a 23-year-old who lives
off her parents' money in a
nice Upper East Side brownstone, she's instantly smitten.
Lavinia is glamorous and wants
to show Louise the time of
her life. But we also learn that
Lavinia will die by the end of
the story - the question is how.
Social Creature is a twisted and
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FLORIDA BY LAUREN GROFF
(Riverhead Books, $27 ) Florida
isn't easily defined, and that's
why it's the perfect setting for
this collection of short stories
from Lauren Groff, the awardwinning author of four other
books, including Fates and
Furies. Whether it's the threat
of sinkholes or a panther or termites, the natural world is just
as charged as the interior lives
of her characters. "Houses
contain us; who can say what
we contain?" she writes in
"Eyewall," in which a woman
grapples with ghosts from her
past as a hurricane damages
her home. In Groff's profound
stories, the domestic and the
untamed exist side by side.

MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION BY OTTESSA MOSHFEGH


(Penguin Press, $26) The latest
novel by this bold contemporary writer follows an unnamed
narrator: a young woman who
decides to check out of her
life's drudgery via drugs prescribed by an incompetent
psychiatrist. Her parents are
dead, she has a vapid friend
she loves but can't stand and
a guy she occasionally sleeps

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with who treats her poorly -
she doesn't find much joy in
anything besides watching
Whoopi Goldberg movies and
going to the bodega near her
apartment. Sleep or selfinduced blackouts are her preferred ways of numbing herself
to get through the days. "My
hibernation was self-preservational," she explains. "I thought
that it was going to save my
life." It's an oddly compelling

novel featuring a mordantly
funny character.


THE THIRD HOTEL BY LAURA

VAN DEN BERG (Farrar, Straus

and Giroux, $25 ) The protago-

nist in Laura van den Berg's
surreal second novel is a widow
who travels to Havana for a film
festival and unexpectedly runs
into her dead husband. Is he a
manifestation of her grief or is
he alive? The rest of her trip is

(PHOTOGRAPHY) CHRIS PLAVIDAL, (STYLING) HEIDI ADAMS

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Virtuoso Life - July/August 2018

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Virtuoso Life - July/August 2018

Virtuoso Life - July/August 2018
Contents
Editor’s Note
Contributors
The Virtuoso Life
Passport
Bon Voyage
Suite Talk
Inspired By
City to Go
Interview
Seat at the Bar
On the Table
Out & About
In My Bag
Be Right Back
Cuba Calling
Insiders’ Amsterdam
Lens on the World
Travel for Good
First Person
Need to Know
Souvenir
Virtuoso Life - July/August 2018 - Intro
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Virtuoso Life - July/August 2018 - Contents
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Virtuoso Life - July/August 2018 - Editor’s Note
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Virtuoso Life - July/August 2018 - Contributors
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Virtuoso Life - July/August 2018 - The Virtuoso Life
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Virtuoso Life - July/August 2018 - Inspired By
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Virtuoso Life - July/August 2018 - City to Go
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Virtuoso Life - July/August 2018 - Interview
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Virtuoso Life - July/August 2018 - Seat at the Bar
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Virtuoso Life - July/August 2018 - On the Table
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Virtuoso Life - July/August 2018 - Out & About
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Virtuoso Life - July/August 2018 - In My Bag
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Virtuoso Life - July/August 2018 - Be Right Back
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Virtuoso Life - July/August 2018 - Cuba Calling
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Virtuoso Life - July/August 2018 - Insiders’ Amsterdam
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Virtuoso Life - July/August 2018 - Lens on the World
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Virtuoso Life - July/August 2018 - Travel for Good
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Virtuoso Life - July/August 2018 - First Person
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Virtuoso Life - July/August 2018 - Need to Know
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Virtuoso Life - July/August 2018 - Souvenir
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