Verdict: carrot
Most intriguing about this ordinary story is the manner in which it is told.
Sometimes, in the novel, the language almost relishes a vernacular idiom; claiming its right to the printed page. At other times, the language stretches this ordinariness in another direction, chafing against the implication that local is not enough when there’s a wide world of words through which to shape ideas.
Murray says, “Instead of insisting on this ossified idea of ‘whiteness’, I wanted to use words to enliven this white world, to create a sense of other lives, indeed ‘othered’ lives, being lived in such an extraordinary richness of words that language both escaped official discourse and enabled the characters, to some extent, to escape the labels placed upon them.”
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