How to Be Both by Ali Smith Only for Adam and Amelia

Only for Adam and Amelia

unforgettable in its descriptions

depicting men and women

It includes inventions that have changed the course of history

- Tristan Caine: the son of a crime kingpin who can see the secrets of the universe

How to Be Both by Ali Smith Only for Adam and AmeliaHow to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double take, it's a fast moving genre bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious,