Roger Fishbite
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Emily Pragers new novel is the revenge of Lolita. It retells Nabokovs controversial masterpiece in the half-innocent half sly voice of the nymphet herself. Or rather a late 1990s version of her sassy worryingly prococious sexy pain-in-the-ass Lucky Linderhof or just a kid whos had to learn to talk and move fast? When the story begins Lucky is at the juvenile detention facility waiting trial for murder. . . Roger Fishbite is what she calls her Humbert Humbert the writ er to whom her dippy beautiful dysfunctional mother rents out the apartment downstairs. He has a fisheye look he gives her when her mo thers out of sight. Like Nabakovs Lolita this is a perverse and disturbing sexual comedy retold with a provocative late 90s spin. An unputdownable story and a razor-sharp indictment of a society that asks four year olds to wiggle and pout as beauty queens but turns a blind eye when the Roger Fishbites get the wrong idea.
