Our supreme fabulist of the ordinary now turns his attention on a
9-year-old American girl and produces a novel as enchantingly
idiosyncratic as any he has written. Nory Winslow wants to be a
dentist or a designer of pop-up books. She likes telling stories
and inventing dolls. She has nightmares about teeth, which may
explain her career choice. She is going to school in England, where
she is mocked for her accent and her friendship with an unpopular
girl, and she has made it through the year without crying.
Nicholson Baker follows Nory as she interacts with her parents and
peers, thinks about God and death-watch beetles, and dreams of cows
with pointed teeth. In this precocious child he gives us a heroine
as canny and as whimsical as Lewis Carroll's Alice and evokes
childhood in all its luminous weirdness.
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