Now, as the noted philanthropist releases her latest work of fiction, Last Days in Two Nations—a serialized dystopian novel available to read for free on Substack—revisit Vogue’s profile of Scott from 2013. As she did in her first book, which was named a Los Angeles Times book of the year and which used the mysteries of plumbing as a metaphor for the intricate bonds of family intimacy, Bezos assigns her characters a wide variety of professions—from animal rescuer to teen prostitute—then uses those professions to elucidate the way their lives have sputtered or stalled. Unlike Luther, which read like a tour de force of domestic realism but wasn’t necessarily a fun time—you try spending a year in the head of a self-absorbed civil engineer—Traps crackles with ready-made Hollywood drama.