In A Certain Age, the protagonist, Florence, meets a novelist at a party. His novel is being optioned for a BBC film. “I’m working on a sequel,” he tells Florence, “about how I rescued an Aleut child-prostitute. It was very dangerous—I was practically harpooned, twice. And paralleling this story is a multigenerational history of New Jersey, dating back to the Ice Age and continuing through to the time I was sent to boarding school. I’m already up to page eleven hundred.”

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