Creation Lake
By Rachel Kushner
Scribner
Sadie, as we’re told to call her, is a mystery. To the people around her, and to us as readers. She’s sent to wartime France, where she’s been given the assignment to keep tabs on an anarchist resistance leader. She seduces one of his followers, and becomes so embedded that she becomes sympathetic to the cause. Or does she? Kusher keeps us guessing as to every characters motives, and the dark sides of each.