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Helen Dewitt: The English Understand Wool (Hardcover, 2022, New Directions) 5 stars

Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl has learned …

Cutting and delectable

5 stars

Never read DeWitt before but apparently she’s a big deal? This lives up to the hype. I’m a petty bitch and this was licks fingers DELICIOUS.

Part of the publisher’s slim hardcover fiction series that “aims to deliver the pleasure one felt as a child reading a marvelous book from cover to cover in an afternoon.” Truly marvelous. If they’re all this good, I feel a strong urge to buy every single one.