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“Real Estate,” Deborah Levy informs us in her memoir by that name, is not a gender-neutral term. The word “real” derives from the word Latin “rex,” or “king;” in Spanish, “real” still carries that meaning, because monarchs once owned all the land in their domains. Today, the phrase denotes residential property, yet its etymology nods to one of Levy’s central preoccupations: If a man’s house is his castle, for the woman who maintains it, home can be anything but. Levy knows this all too well, having recently exchanged her well-appointed home, and the marriage that came with it, for a dingy London flat. (For more on that, see her 2018 memoir, “The Cost of Living.”) In the book’s opening pages, she impulsively buys a banana tree that reminds her of the New Mexico ranch where Georgia O’Keeffe spent her old age. Unfurling its leaves in Levy’s bathroom, the only place warm enough to nourish it, the banana tree emphasizes Levy’s precarious material cond

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