Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters *ePub
A hilarious and moving story of one girl’s fight for freedom of expression, as well as a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal phrase containing all the letters of the alphabet, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island’s Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop. As the letters progressively drop from the statue they also disappear from the novel. The result is "a love letter to alphabetarians and logomaniacs everywhere" (Myla Goldberg, bestselling author of Bee Season). Read more
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Why Must Read Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters?
I'm a writer and an editor. This book was so much fun to read. It started out with such fancy writing that you had to re-read it twice or three times to understand it--usually a no-no for a book--but it was so intriguing I couldn't put it down. The metaphor for the politics that is going on in the country right now was on point, where people are afraid to speak their minds or have opinions that don't fall in line with the main stream media or you are cancelled. The leaders' antics are like those in "The Emperor's New Clothes," only in this book, even if a child points out the idiocy, they are also punished. This book had some twists and turns and it was fun to try to keep up with the alphabet-speak. I loved the transitions to the spelling of the words. I actually had to read it aloud to be able to understand what they were saying. At one point, when read aloud, it sounded like phonetic German--another metaphor. I was a quick read and I highly recommend it, especially for wordsmiths who love words and the English language. It really was genius.
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