![]() ![]() ![]() And then one day, without warning, Sarah put 16-year-old Gretel on a bus, alone, and vanished. “Living like demons or animals out where no one could get to them,” she and her enthralling, witchlike mother, Sarah, spent years on a boat moored in the canals of Oxford. Johnson’s narrator, Gretel Whiting, is a reclusive British lexicographer in her early 30s with a secret past. The result is an uncanny update of ancient storytelling on a primal theme: Are our fates “coded into us from the moment we are born”? She coins words, channels outlier voices, and fractures chronology. ![]() Daisy Johnson-who at 27 was the youngest writer ever to make the short list-pulls off several marvels at once in Everything Under (her debut novel, no less). “M iracles of stylistic invention,” Kwame Anthony Appiah, the chair of the 2018 Man Booker Prize judging committee, called all six finalists this year. ![]()
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