Fiddler Is a Good Woman

A biography that doesn’t quite exist, about a violinist who can’t be found, as told by people who aren᾿t all there

Novelist Geoff Berner has been tasked with writing a biography of DD, a mysterious, charismatic, chimaerical journeywoman violinist who has, it seems, dropped off the face of the earth. But Berner finds her supposed friends painting him such contradictory portraits of her that he can’t...