A guest at a Greenwich dinner party locks himself in an upstairs bedroom and refuses to come out in Ali Smith's new four-part novel, a book that Monitor fiction critic Yvonne Zipp calls both "agile" and "clever."

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A guest at a Greenwich dinner party locks himself in an upstairs bedroom and refuses to come out in Ali Smith's new four-part novel, a book that Monitor fiction critic Yvonne Zipp calls both "agile" and "clever."
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