Open Letter to Deborah Levy

Regarding her book, Real Estate

Dear Deborah Levy,

On impulse over three recent mornings, I re-read Real Estate, and again I am feeling the need to thank you for it.

I first read the book a few months after it first came out in 2021, but I hesitated to write back then, assuming there was no shortage of writers in their thirties and forties who also saw you as an oracle, a time-travelin…