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A Box of Matches
by Nicholson Baker
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Emmett has a wife and two children, a cat, and a duck, and he wants to know
what life is about. Every day he gets up before dawn, makes a cup of coffee in
the dark, lights a fire with one wooden match, and thinks.
"'A Box of Matches' goes down so easily, feels so warm and accessible, that
you have to remind yourself this is an experimental novel. As Virginia Woolf
did, Baker has genuinely transformed the way fiction can render our experience
on the page. There's nothing else like [it] out there."
Reviewed by: Michael Upchurch in The Seattle Times
