The Inexquisite Eye

About the Book

"Everything I value about myself disappears at work. Like a rock thrown into the water."

Elissa Laughlin is a young, effective attorney with a growing reputation. Powerful partners have high hopes for her future. Yet Elissa does not recognize herself.

Convinced that every decision she has made is too much of a compromise, Elissa stops bending or yielding for anyone. At work, she disdains office politics and does exactly what she thinks is right. At home, she pursues her ideal of love with the same scorched-earth integrity. As her career suffers setbacks, as the man she loves turns increasingly restless, Elissa struggles to protect her vision of a world were everyone becomes the person they are meant to be.

About the Author

D. B. Smith studied English at Yale and then read Greek and Latin literature at Oxford. He wrote most of this novel alone in a farmhouse with no electricity, working as a stablehand and pumping gas. Now an editor at Houghton Mifflin, he lives outside Boston with his wife and children.