Trenton Makes by Tadzio Koelb.
After killing her husband in 1946, a woman assumes his identity and constructs a new life as Abe Kunstler in industrial New Jersey. By 1971, the family and economic world supporting that life are coming apart.
Tadzio Koelb's novel turns self-invention into a question of survival and cost. It invites a discussion of the American promise of reinvention, and of what that promise requires a person to conceal.
