![]() Surely she would draw on such rich material, so close to hand? A confirmation bias is at work, and the belief to be confirmed is that a book by MacKenzie Bezos-one half of the richest couple in the world, partner to a man who has exploded paradigms of retail, labor, even capitalism itself, and upended the very industry that publishes her books-just has to be a roman à clef. There is a particular difficulty in discerning whether this book is good, not because the text qua text is somehow elusive or inscrutable but because one struggles to read it without sweeping for psychological clues. Both books were released by traditional imprints, not Amazonian ones (Bezos has referred to his wife as “the fish that got away”), and one of them, “Luther Albright,” is good. MacKenzie is a writer who studied fiction under Toni Morrison, at Princeton, and has published two novels, “ The Testing of Luther Albright,” in 2005, and “ Traps,” in 2013. Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos are seeking a divorce, having amassed twenty-five years of marriage, four children, and a net worth of a hundred and thirty-seven billion dollars. ![]() MacKenzie Bezos, wife of the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, writes about the plight of the introverted wife in her novels. ![]()
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