Nell Zink’s “Nicotine” gives readers a buzz

The only thing that might be more radical than the plot of Nicotine, is author Nell Zink’s imagination. Publisher Ecco.
The epic myth around novelist Nell Zink precedes her books. For instance, before I picked up her new novel, Nicotine, I knew that Zink got her start as Jonathan Franzen’s pen pal talking about birding, about which they both are passionate. Franzen, possibly America’s most famous living novelist, implored Zink to publish. Her first book, The Wallcreeper, came