That it is about nothing isn't to say that it's not about anything. No is a caper with teeth, a wildly mischievous novel from one of America's most inventive, provocative, and productive writers. I think it's time we gave nothing back."ĭr. This country has never given anything to us and it never will. As Sill says, "Professor, think of it this way. In the process, Wala Kitu learns that Sill's desire to become a literal Bond villain originated in some real all-American villainy related to the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. With the help of the brainy and brainwashed astrophysicist-turned-henchwoman Eigen Vector, our professor tries to foil the villain while remaining in his employ. Once he controls nothing he'll proceed with a dastardly plan to turn a Massachusetts town into nothing. This makes him the perfect partner for the aspiring villain John Sill, who wants to break into Fort Knox to steal, well, not gold bars but a shoebox containing nothing. That is to say, he is an expert, and his area of study is nothing, and he does nothing about it.
(Wala, he explains, means "nothing" in Tagalog, and Kitu is Swahili for "nothing.") He is an expert on nothing. The protagonist of Percival Everett's puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. Surprising, sexy, and hilarious, Good Girl is a thoughtful and endearing portrait of a young woman unsure of what she’s supposed to want from a world where the rules keep changing. How to be true to herself, as chaotic as she believes herself to be how to be good to those around her how to survive as a young woman in the still messy media culture of 2015.
When she discovers a teen magazine from the 1970s, it sparks her imagination and her life finally seems to come into focus but as she learns more about how women were treated behind the scenes, she has to decide what to do.
She was always a good student, tries to be a good friend, a good citizen, a good feminist, and now she wants a lover who will give her a good beating, preferably after tying her up.ĭating swings from the sublime to the humiliating, but then Lucy hooks up with someone who challenges her to pursue the writing career she has been letting idle. Good Girl - Anna Fitzpatrick Anna Fitzpatrick
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