Libra

Libra builds its fictional account around Lee Harvey Oswald’s path from a troubled adolescence toward a fragile sense of stability and historical importance. The publisher description places that trajectory alongside two disgruntled CIA operatives plotting an attempt on President Kennedy, presenting the novel as a speculation on events leading to the assassination. Its blend of real and invented figures makes the boundary between documented history and imagined motive central to the book’s subject. The assassination serves not only as a historical event but as a point of inquiry into how individuals imagine themselves acting within history, and how political schemes can take on consequences beyond their designers’ plans.