RaveBookPost\"...what makes her fiction so singular and rich is that her obsession with characters who push against the constraints society has imposed on them extends to the conventional forms of writing she herself is constantly attempting to subvert. Unlike many deliberately experimental novelists, however, DeWitt does not treat dismantling narrative expectations as an end in itself; her intention is always to enhance, and expand, our ideas of what fiction can be, what is possible. Like a rugby player, DeWitt pitches the ball backward, but only in order to move it forward ... he novella The English Understand Wool, is quintessential DeWitt—many stories in one, each artful in its own right but combining to make a kind of extra story that takes the work as a whole beyond what the others could accomplish by themselves.\
