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Sounds like a Viking-era set up for a joke. After a raid, the suitably named Grimur, boy monk Martin, and a mute mead-wife survive the massacre. How they'll fare on the depopulated shore's the concern of this deft Scots author, known for his plays more than his fiction. His prose carries a wry, postmodern air, drifting in omniscient voice and a spare, irreverent voice.

I read Boyle’s debut set in his native Brooklyn Italian-American neighborhood (but not for long as California, Florida, Jersey, and Long Island beckon) last in his series recently reviewed by me. Since I had the library queue keeping Gravesend, a fitting title indeed, as attesting to its deserved popularity. I remain impressed as it’s probably his most adept plot which unlike some of his subsequent novels in