Christopher Moore

This is the belabored but enormously striving, creative, and sincere final volume of Knausgård's six-part autobiographical novel. The entirety of the sequence presents in a way more familiar and vivid than any other 21st-century book I know the compulsion to write, the dutifulness of a parent, the dailiness of philosophical reflection, and the wish to make meaning of one's more or less halcyon but mundane days of youth.