ABOUT
THE BOOK

Nicholson Baker, known for his exuberantly detailed comedies of ordinary life, now turns his attention to the inner landscape of a nine-year-old American girl who is spending a term at an English school. She thinks about teeth, tells herself stories, defends a 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.