These are the books critic magicmolly can't get out of her head this month
Photo: Wikimedia Commons Are factoids about other people’s jobs interesting to you? I hoard them like fine treasures. Once, in central Oregon, I was chastised by a rancher for asking how many cows he owned. First, he said, this was a rude question because I was basically asking him his net worth. Second, he said, one wouldn’t say “cows” but rather “head of cattle” — as in, “I have 500 head of cattle, not that it’s any of your business.
Kitamura writes the kind of minimalist prose that can feel skeletal if done poorly. In this case, the austerity is enthralling — all the more so because I couldn’t figure out how she pulled it off, even after I read the book twice with a pencil in one hand. How did she make so much happen with so few words? A better technician of prose could figure it out; I’m happy to marinate in bewildered reverence.
The premise here is that an English girl is sent to live with her grandmother after a minor operation in London, with the logic that she will be exposed to “sea air.” Granny Webster follows in the grand literary tradition of sadistic English caregivers, speaking entirely in poisoned darts and reveling in acts of irrational tyranny.
$15 at New York Review of Book Buy WHY DON’T YOU … • Duck dive into this monument to African surf culture and then mail me an envelope of WELL-CONCEALED CASH so I can book a ticket to Ghana? Thanks in advance!
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