Getting Real, Getting Personal: Fictions and Realities of Property Across Borders (Review of Lionel Shriver, Property: Stories Between Two Novellas and Ayelet Waldman, Love & Treasure)

Authors

Jorge L. Contreras, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of UtahFollow

Author ORCID Identifier

0000-0002-7899-3060

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-2022

Abstract

From our earliest days, we are steeped in stories revolving around the acquisition, and loss, of property. For these reasons, Lionel Shriver’s collection of short fiction – Property: Stories between Two Novellas – and Ayelet Waldman’s novel Love & Treasure are particularly worthy of attention. Each of these works sheds new and interesting light on assumptions about property across national and cultural boundaries and raises questions about the place of property in shaping the human experience.

Recommended Citation

Jorge L. Contreras, Getting Real, Getting Personal: Fictions and Realities of Property Across Borders (Review of Lionel Shriver, Property: Stories Between Two Novellas and Ayelet Waldman, Love & Treasure), 45 Fordham International Law Journal __(forthcoming 2022)