Volume 46, Number 14 · September 23, 1999
Far from Babar
By Caroline Fraser
The White Bone
by Barbara Gowdy
Metropolitan Books, 330 pp., $23.00
Barbara Gowdy's new novel, The White Bone, opens at a fateful moment, when a family fails to recognize 'glaring omens' of impending catastrophe because it is preoccupied in arguing over the proper name for an adopted daughter. The daughter's childhood nickname is Mud, and she is an elephant.
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