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Violence
None
No violence
Language
None
No strong language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Mild; the creeping horror of authoritarianism expressed through language erasure
What this book is about
Mark Dunn's ingenious epistolary novel takes place on the island of Nollop — home to the creator of the pangram 'The quick brown fox...' — where letters fall one by one from the founder's monument and the government bans their use entirely. As more letters disappear, Dunn's characters write with a shrinking alphabet, the prose itself becoming the story's engine.
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