[covingtoncat73]

Mislaid is hilarious. It is quite the send-up of the mores of the Southern Bourgeois intelligentsia with a very fun heroine.

“She had read enough lives of the poetesses to know all about inpatient psychiatric care.”
― Nell Zink, Mislaid

“She would see that in England, for reasons unknown, a woman can simultaneously be cute as a bug’s ear, a serious rose gardener, and a nymphomaniac.”
― Nell Zink, Mislaid

“As a writer, she was struggling. As an accomplice to the wholesale drug trade, she was setting new benchmarks for excellence in felony crime.”
― Nell Zink, Mislaid

“If and when family planning is the responsibility of females, males are best kept under lock and key.”
― Nell Zink, Mislaid

“It was a pastiche of public library porn from Irving Stone to Philip Roth.”
― Nell Zink, Mislaid