![]() On the other hand, a closer or simply more forgiving approach might be to submerge oneself in LaCava’s vivid inner life while she struggles to make sense of the outer world.īorn into privilege, if not great wealth - her grandfather enjoyed whisking her grandmother away from their home in Massachusetts to vacations in Monte Carlo - the 12-year-old LaCava moved to Le Vésinet outside Paris, when her father’s mysterious business demanded it. The resulting impression can be one of creativity run amok: highly imaginative, charmingly original, but not constituting a successful whole. ![]() And sprinkled throughout are whimsical illustrations by Matthew Nelson. ![]() Of almost equal weight are her lengthy, discursive footnotes. ![]() In the central text, LaCava relates the story of her mental deterioration during the 1990s when she was an American teenager living in France. Part memoir, part illustrated narrative, part digressive exposition, it tugs the reader’s attention first one way, then the other, an experience that must be somewhat akin to living with the inward focus of the author’s own restless mind. ![]() An Extraordinary Theory of Objects is a peculiar stylistic mash-up by a young writer with prodigious potential. ![]()
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