RaveThe New York Times Sunday Book ReviewChristine Schutt’s refreshingly strange novel All Souls is exciting evidence that she continues to push the boundaries of fiction … Schutt’s deft use of syntactical surprise and her delicious attention to the rhythm and sound of a sentence may strike fear in the plot-hungry hearts of some readers. But All Souls is less enigmatic than Florida, with plenty of straight-up storytelling. The action takes place at an elite Manhattan girls’ school called Siddons (the kind of place where, when a teacher asks, ‘Who do you think you are?’ the reply is ‘A Du Pont’) … It’s the foreign land of teenage girldom — where bodies relentlessly blossom and friendships resemble tortuous love affairs — that Schutt gets especially, achingly, right.
