Meanwhile, in Another Part of the Story
Digressions, odd patterns and puns animate Emma Richler’s oddball novel January 2017
Some novels are likely to be better on a second reading. Novels like Michael Ondaajte’s In the Skin of a Lion, in which style and detail are more central than plot, reward rereadings, and I suspect the same is true of Emma Richler’s strange new novel. An otherwise heartbreaking love story, Be My Wolff keeps the reader at a distance through its…