https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n09/joanna-biggs/i-cannot-explain-my-wife Created Fri, 21/04/2023 - 00:00 Updated Fri, 21/04/2023 - 00:00 The conceit of the novel is that it is a fictional biography, with fake footnotes, but real endnotes that reveal the sources Catherine Lacey used to create X, her wife and the world she lived in.