My Favorite Books of 2006: The Thin Place by Kathryn Davis

Of all the books by Kathryn Davis that I’ve read, this one is probably the second least strange (The first is The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf). This is not, however, to say that it’s not strange. Davis gives everything in her universe a voice. When the narrative perspective swoops from a human character, to a family dog, to lichen, the experience is not unlike dreams of flight.