In ‘The Most,’ a 1950s housewife takes to the pool and won’t come out

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Virgil, an aggressively handsome but lackluster insurance salesman, has concerns about his wife.

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‘The Shadow Scholar’ by Dave Tomar and ‘Conning Harvard’ by Julie Zauzmer

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‘Le Divorce’ was a ’90s sensation. Diane Johnson is back again with another hit.

The opening scene is perfection. We meet the eponymous heroine of Diane Johnson’s latest novel, “Lorna Mott Comes Home,” as she rides in the back of a taxi, en route to the train station in Lyon.

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‘Impossible Views of the World’ by Lucy Ives

And then there is the appendix. You have turned the last page of Lucy Ives’s intricate, darkly funny debut, and a curious timeline appears. Have you missed a plot point or two or 10?

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