The Woman in the Library

A book that asks the audacious question “What if a story-within-a-story structure had no purpose or payoff at all?”

(Its side question is “What if we went out of our way to assert things like ‘Americans don't use the word beanie' or ‘Americans never call it a phone, they call it a cell phone'?” The errors were so obvious and unforced that I thought they would comprise some kind of plot point. Incorrect!)