cover image Digs

Digs

Bette Pesetsky. Penguin Books, $6.95 (304pp) ISBN 978-0-14-008318-7

After coming into a sizable inheritance, Walter and Sara Simon leave Manhattan for the country. The house they move into rests over a long-forgotten monument to Atlantis, and Walter begins excavating. The novel swirls, takes sudden and fast leaps, moves backward and forward in time, and shifts perspective. PW found the work marked by ""wit, shrewdness, energy and buoyancy.'' December