Gillian Linden’s beguiling, vexing, and exhilarating debut novel, Negative Space, is a spare, almost austere book, whose unnamed narrator is a teacher at a private school in Brooklyn, a place with high expectations and no grades. Her husband, Nicholas, is a nice enough businessman who is doing well, but not so well that they can actually afford to send their own children to the school where she teaches. Instead, they send the younger of their two kids, Lewis, who seems about five years old, to a less expensive private school, and the older, Jane, seven, to public school.
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