There But For The: A Novel Review

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There But For The: A Novel ReviewOne of the things I'm often accused of in my reviews is that I rarely tell the plot of a story.
The reason for that is that I'm a great believer in (Roger) Ebert's Premise which (I paraphrase) is: "A Work of art is not WHAT it's about, but HOW it is about it!"
Take this (fill in your best superlative... it will be accurate) book by the marvelous Ali Smith.
If I tell you that it's about a man at a dinner party who locks himself in a room and refuses to leave, and that's ALL the plot there is, you'll think I'm nuts telling you it's a must read! (Some of the more literate among you may even detect a whiff of Melville's "BartlebY")
If I tell you that the story of this man is related to us by four separate characters, ages between 10 and Octogenery, you'll shrug and I'll be lying since these four possess only varying degrees of NOT KNOWING MUCH ABOUT HIM AT ALL.
So what do we have?
A book with no plot told by characters who don't have much of a clue about the only plot point the book has. What on earth am I raving about!?!?
Only the funniest, most brilliant, most moving, most enjoyable book of, not only this year, but possibly, of the decade!
That's what!There But For The: A Novel OverviewFrom the award-winning author of Hotel World and The Accidental, a dazzling, funny, and wonderfully exhilarating new novel. At a dinner party in the posh London suburb of Greenwich, Miles Garth suddenly leaves the table midway through the meal, locks himself in an upstairs room, and refuses to leave. An eclectic group of neighbors and friends slowly gathers around the house, and Miles's story is told from the points of view of four of them: Anna, a woman in her forties; Mark, a man in his sixties; May, a woman in her eighties; and a ten-year-old named Brooke. The thing is, none of these people knows Miles more than slightly. How much is it possible for us to know about a stranger? And what are the consequences of even the most casual, fleeting moments we share every day with one another? Brilliantly audacious, disarmingly playful, and full of Smith's trademark wit and puns, There but for the is a deft exploration of the human need for separation—from our pasts and from one another—and the redemptive possibilities for connections. It is a tour de force by one of our finest writers.

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