The Everlasting Story of Nory
Nicholson Baker, in The Everlasting Story of Nory, enters the mind of a nine-year-old girl. This sounds like a recipe for unrelenting twee, but Baker manages to pull it off. Nory, created with the help of Baker's daughter, who he identifies as his "informant," is a typically curious American child living, with her family, in England. As we watch her make sense (and sometimes nonsense) of her world, we are entranced, and taken back, perhaps, to a time in our own lives when the world was a more mysterious, more dramatic, place.
