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Divide Me by Zero

Part mother-daughter story, part self-help guide and part math workbook, Lara Vapnyar’s sixth novel yields humorous and profound life lessons.

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Review of ‘Divide Me by Zero’

Lara Vapnyar’s sixth book is a clever novel encompassing love and death, couched in an instruction manual.

A writer living in New York and the mother of two, Katya is in the middle of a divorce, is engaged to a rich man she doesn’t love and is still in love with another man who will…

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