THERE ARE CHARACTERS THAT NOVELISTS create and then find they adore. Dora, the protagonist of Owen King’s new novel The Curator, is one such figure. “She’s so smart,” he says. “She’s so composed and she’s so much more than the people around her think she is. I find that to be an extraordinarily appealing point of view, and I loved writing a story about somebody who everybody underestimates, an underdog.”
Dora, a domestic turned museum worker (hence the book’s title) is one of the most vividly drawn characters in
