Intimacies: A Novel

The thought was disquieting—that our identities should be so mutable, and therefore the course of our lives.

eschew

garrulous

perfunctory

Interpretation was a matter of great subtlety, a word with many contexts, for example it is often said that an actor interprets a role, or a musician a piece of music.

there were great chasms beneath words, between two or sometimes more languages, that could open up without warning.

mien.

covetous

logorrheic