BOOK REVIEW: THIS SHAPE WE'RE IN by Jonathan Lethem

This Shape We're In by Jonathan Lethem
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Brief and nifty. At fifty-five pages and with largish print, I think that in some other format, say The New Yorker, this would not be so much a novella as a long short story,

Perhaps the people at McSweeney's have figured something out. Is this what their readership is searching for? Books that remind them of the first "chapter books" they read in fourth grade? Do they remember their proud parents telling neighbors, "We're so pleased with Joshua. He's begun reading chapter books."


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