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Told from Marysia's point of view, the novel is a mélange of dreams, fantasies, and perhaps even hallucinations, as when Tryzna's heroine steps into the woods on the day she menstruates for the first time and finds a young man lying on the path skewered by a spear. "Gripping the spear, he wriggles his body, like he's trying to climb up.... He sees me. He begs pitifully, 'Little girl, please help me. Pull this out of me. I can't do it alone. Please, pull it..." Though the symbolism gets laid on a bit thick from time to time, Miss Nobody is a promising first effort from a novelist we're sure to encounter again. --Margaret Prior
462 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1994