REVIEW | Karen Lazar's insightful novel of the transforming city is a tale told (partly) by a hadeda

28 Jun 2023

Jane Rosenthal

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W is for Witness by Karen Lazar. (Quartz Press)

BOOK: W is for Witness by Karen Lazar (Quartz Press)

In W is for Witness, Karen Lazar has achieved the happy paradox of balancing gravitas and fun. As the erudite teacher of English literature (and other facets of the language) that she is, she shows her presence as an author but creates a team of narrators headed by an omniscient hadeda. This in itself is a little joke about the omniscience of authors.

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