Ella Minnow Pea
A Novel in Letters
by Mark Dunn
February 18th (3rd Thurs)
8pm at Andi M.'s
Summary:
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 pangram, "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 islands Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as the 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 both a hilarious and moving story of the girl's fight for freedom of expression, as well as a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere.
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