She had been carrying the manuscript around for three years and had just turned it in to her publisher.“ It feels good, ” her letter said.... Farther away from the land that is not your own.” Language, and the deconstruction of it, are essential to the book.... Little is made explicit, and the structure is enigmatic: In places, sentences are reduced to fragments; sections in French and Korean go untranslated; pictures and diagrams are presented without captions....