Claudia Dey’s debut novel, Stunt, is written in the present-tense first-person semi-omniscient. That first person is Eugenia Ledoux, nine years old for the first two sections before doubling in age overnight to eighteen for the final three. In meandering flashbacks, she gives us her history, including conception and birth. This knowledge about events she could never remember, in other parts of the city, or in the hearts and minds of characters she passes on the street comes across as absolute fact. Eugenia admits few maybes, few I imagines into her narrative; everything seems to come from a wise and literate oracle, and is often too beautiful to be doubted.