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Make Believe
Joanna Scott. Back Bay Books: 2001 (paperback). ISBN: 0316776661. 246 pages.
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It must feel pretty darn good to be the kind of writer that other writers rave
about. Turn to the back of Scott's fourth novel, Make Believe, and you'll find praise from some of today's most celebrated
authors--Michael Cunningham, Rick Moody, David Foster Wallace. Wallace, in fact, calls Scott "the absolute cream of our
generation." Johanna Scott was a finalist for the Pulitzer in 1997, and if she doesn't get nominated for this book, some
heads are gonna roll. This is the story of Bo, a three-year-old orphan trying, like any three-year-old, to make sense of
the world around him. It's a tough job, especially considering that his two very different sets of grandparents are fighting
to get custody of their parentless grandson. Scott's story is no legal thriller, nor is it a tear-jerking tale of innocence
besieged. Rather, she accomplishes the astonishing feat of getting us inside the head of a very young child while giving us
a riveting story for intelligent adults. This is one of the great ones-don't miss it.
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