bamboozled by the hype and comparisons to Donna Tartt’sThe Secret History. If you want to read something else on the best-seller list (keeping in mind that “best” refers only to sales), try Laura Dave’sThe Last Thing He Told Me(Simon & Schuster, digital galley), in which a woman...
They are surely just too bamboozled to realize the difference between allegory and evidence. As a child, I remember slight confusion when Christian stories clashed with evolution and the big bang. So much the worse for the religious stories - I simply remoulded the religious ideas to fit the ...