Peter Buwalda Goes Wild in a Grim Family Fairy Tale About Cheating and Being Cheated On

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Literature, he believes, is sublime art. He doesn't write "good reads." Peter Buwalda, the revered author of voluminous novels, unsurprisingly reveals himself in his latest, The Nodding Man, as a god on a magic mountain. He juggles storyline and characters, writes a novel within a novel, flirts with postmodernism, and borrows from Great Writers. In his sequel to Otmar's Sons, Buwalda goes completely wild.