Lily Tuck

Lily Tuck is the author of seven novels, among them The News from Paraguay, winner of the 2004 National Book Award, and most recently Sisters, two collections of stories, and a biography, Woman of Rome, a Life of Elsa Morante. This year she received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram

Great Aunt Dorothea Mendelssohn

or, Foam on the wave
Lily Tuck
July 1, 2018