The originality of the US author’s celebrated ornithological debut is also evident in her second, equally striking, novel
Achieving “cultural significance”, Nell Zink wrote recently on BuzzFeed, is looking like the best job she has ever had. “My social status in the last year has gone from zero to hero. Where will it all end?” Strangers organise dinners in her honour. “I was invited to the Edinburgh festival! A photo editor asked me who she should book for makeup and hair!” A year ago, Zink was a little-known expatriate American living in Germany, working as a translator, contributing the occasional loopy essay to n+1, the Brooklyn-based radical magazine. Then her friend Jonathan Franzen helped her to get her novel published, and when she’s not getting called “the new Kafka” she is, as she says, being “hailed as a genius”.
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