Lisa Halliday’s debut, Asymmetry , is an experiment in the form of the novel, and an exploration of the multilayered life of an artist. It’s made up of three sections: Folly, Madness, and a Coda. In “Folly,” Alice, a young editor and aspiring writer, meets Ezra, a famous novelist 50 years her senior, on a park bench near Central Park. It is not long before Alice is spending her evenings at Ezra’s apartment, while she continues to read manuscripts during the day. She brings him groceries. They