mark reviewed The English Understand Wool by Helen Dewitt (Storybook ND)
Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl has learned …
A Very Fun, Very Funny Little Modern Fable
5 stars
A VERY short little volume but one that is intensely fun to read. This is actually my first DeWitt - I haven't read The Last Samurai yet! - and I really loved it. Made up of 32 chapters, the book starts by painting an exquisite picture of a world before - in chapter 3 - very suddenly throwing it into peril. Extremely good.