Mislaid

Startlingly radical; dazzlingly witty; unlike anything that has come before - this is the most exciting novel you will read this year. '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.' Jonathan Franzen Virginia; 1966. The motionless deeps of the lake outside Stillwater College are being ruffled. Lee; a blue-blooded poet and professor; is determinedly fondling Peggy; an ingenue freshman with literary pretensions; in his canoe. So begins a long affair but the two are mismatched from the start. The story that follows rocks the boat in every sense. Nell Zink's hugely entertaining; totally unique Mislaid explodes the nuclear family and topples every foundation of identity - black and white; gay and straight; normal and very very strange...