Nicholson Baker, acclaimed for his exuberantly detailed comedies of ordinary life, here turns his attention to the inner landscape of nine-year old American girl, Nory, who is spending a term at an English school. She thinks about teeth, tells herself stories, defends a bullied classmate, has nightmares about cows, and generally does her best to make sense of life's particulars as she encounters them. 'The Everlasting Story of Nory' is a funny, captivating, complicated book for grown-ups about the wisdom and strangeness that can exist in a child's mind.
