The Wallcreeper

Fiction. Who is Nell Zink? She claims to be an expatriate living in northeast Germany. Maybe she is; maybe she isn't. I don't know. I do know that this first novel arrives with a voice that is fully formed: mature, hilarious, terrifyingly intelligent, and wicked. The novel is about a bird-loving American couple that moves to Europe and becomes, basically, eco-terrorists. This is strange, and interesting, but in between is some writing about marriage, love, fidelity, Europe, and saving the earth that is as funny and as grown-up as anything I've read in years. And there are some jokes in here that a young Don DeLillo would kill to have written. I hope he doesn't kill Nell Zink.--Keith Gessen

Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know. You might not want to believe this, but her sentences and stories are so strong and convincing that you'll have no choice.--Jonathan Franzen

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dorothy a Publishing Project
Published: 10/01/2014
ISBN: 9780989760713
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.10h x 5.60w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/21/2014
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2014
New York Times Book Review 10/19/2014 pg. 15
New York Times Book Review 10/26/2014 pg. 30
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/03/2014 pg. 30
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/07/2014 pg. 27