New fiction: Calculating adults propel a child in anxious directions in messy, fun ‘Red Dress in Black and White’

In the splendidly gnarly new novel from Elliot Ackerman, author of "Waiting for Eden," five problematic characters with disparate agendas push and pull a 7-year-old boy’s life in anxious directions against a backdrop of protest in Istanbul in the early 2010s.