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Describe your latest book.
Woman No. 17 is a novel about women, motherhood, art, sex, drinking, the Internet, and all the identities we embrace — and the many we are keen to reject. Lady is a recently separated mother of two; her son Devin is a toddler and her older son Seth, who is 18 years old, cannot speak. Lady hires Esther, a recent college graduate who goes by S, to watch Devin so that she can finish her memoir. Lady’s book is supposed to be about raising a child with a disability, but she’s having trouble coming to terms with her own life story. S moves into the Hollywood Hills backyard cottage and quickly becomes enmeshed in the family. Unbeknownst to Lady, S is an artist at work on a secret project of her own, and she isn’t at all what she seems. The thing is, no one really is...