BOOKS OF THE YEAR

SECOND PLACE BY RACHEL CUSK

In 1932, eccentric art patron Mabel Dodge Luhan hosted DH Lawrence in her mansion, located at the Taos art colony she had founded to further the spread (and it must be said, exoticize) of Native American art. As DH Lawrence is wont to do, the visit was fraught with drama. Luhan wrote about the experience in her memoir of the visit, Lorenzo in Taos. 89 years later, writer Rachel Cusk’s Second Place›is a semi-fictionalized account of the visit. Cusk is a master at telling the stories