Ducornet is a writer with ardent fans, a critical following, and good name recognition with booksellers, creating a built-in audience of readers and reviewers
Brightfellow matches her "lyrical heat" (NYT) with the trappings of the campus novel-though this is less Stoner and more Who's Afraid of Viriginia Woolf
The main characters are abandoned children-Stub, whose adulthood is stunted by childhood neglect, and Asthma and PeaPod, who are afterthoughts to their parents escapades-and there's a Swiss Family Robinson magic, as well as a Lord of the Flies volatility, to their making do.
Love's inability to reach its intended target is the subject of much of the novel, and it gives it a pathos and tenderness, as well as sense of inevitability and tragedy, that should make it ripe for book club discussions and accessible to a wider readership than Netsuke
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