The Witch (Marie NDiaye)

Psst, dagger-slim goth beach read. If Helen Oyeyemi and Kelly Link teamed up to make Pynchon look like a hack, they might write something like this. Marie NDiaye is so comfortably absurd that her wild, very French and very female story feels more plausible than realism. She is confident that you'll follow her in a way that makes you realize other authors don't trust their audience very much at all, actually, and keeping pace with this hilarious, strange, elegiac tale of a woman passing her feeble powers on to her daughters and then watching them and her whole life fly away is immensely satisfying. Pardon me while I dip out to read everything else NDiaye has written. #FreeSteve