Heads You Lose

This ebulliently original novel starts out as your run-of-the-mill caper about orphaned siblings dealing drugs who are compelled to investigate the decapitated corpse left on their lawn. But then the authors, Lisa Lutz and David Hayward, start to quarrel. It's as if Italo Calvino hijacked Don Winslow's Savages, and it's a deliciously head-spinning ride.

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

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