Another Kind of Symmetry: A Novel

• Winner of the 2024 Permafrost Book Prize in Fiction
• Selected by Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist Eowyn Ivey
• Forthcoming in June 2026

This is a wonderful, rich novel about the push and pull of family and home. The descriptions of Agni’s experiences in Greece, with its ghosts, family history, and village life, contrast sharply with that of her sister Effie’s search for art, freedom, and individuality in New York. I was equally drawn to both of them, and I felt their frustrations and yearnings. The writing is so well-honed and detailed that I was confident all along that I was in good hands, even as I was transported from one place to another. The story never lagged – I was eager to learn the fate of these two young women. And the novel asks interesting questions about how we maintain our deep ties with family and ancestry while also carving out new lives for ourselves. In the end, the novel shows the painful but heartfelt truth: it is never simple. – Eowyn Ivey