A review by bookherd
The Everlasting Story of Nory by Nicholson Baker

3.0

Although I enjoyed 9 year old Nory and her imagination, at times I thought this book was just an exercise in cleverness for Nicholson Baker. The observations that Nory makes about friendships and the social world of 9 year olds are beautifully done, and the stories she tells herself for her own pleasure are strange and wonderful. What really bothered me was Baker's representation of the children's speech--childlike malapropisms were charming at first but then began to get old--and the sense that the story was not really going anywhere. Enjoy the moment in this book, because that is all there is.