How’s that for an evocative cover? Spoiler alert: the entire novel is essentially as unsettling as that image. Our unnamed narrator moves into a house in a “northern country”. We know that she is Jewish, the youngest of many children, and from the first sentence we know that this book will take us to unusual places. Of course, there’s dead cows, piglets possibly murdered by their own mother, phantom dog pregnancies. But this book isn’t about the things that happen, at least not entirely. It’s […]