The wallcreeper
by Nell Zink · first published 2014
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"Nell Zink's debut novel follows a downwardly mobile secretary from Philadelphia who marries an ambitious soon-to-be-expat pharmaceutical researcher in hopes that she will never work again. They end up in Germany, where it turns out that her new husband is tougher, sneakier, more sincere, more contradictory, and smarter than she is; she'd naturally thought it was impossible. Life becomes complicated with affairs, birding, and eco-terrorism. Bad things happen, yet they stagger through, clinging to each other from a safe distance. Eventually our heroine commences building a life of her own, in i
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Nell Zink is a brilliant, totally idiosyncratic writer. Her novel The Wallcreeper has a car crash and miscarriage in the first sentence. This piece is ostensibly about Robert Walser and Dostoevsky, but it's really an unfiltered monologue where she badmouths other Walser translators/critics,…
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