When the unsuccessful artist Chris Kraus spends an evening with a rebellious academic named Dick just before her 40th birthday, she falls madly and inexplicably in love with him and pulls her husband into her ghostly quest. Dick suggests a kind of game between them, but when he doesn't respond to her letters, Chris continues on her own, transforming a youthful infatuation into a new form of philosophy. Blurring the boundaries of fiction, essay, and memoir, Chris Kraus's novel was a literary sensation upon its release in 1997. It is widely regarded as the most important feminist novel of the last two decades and remains essential reading; as relevant, passionate, and witty as ever.