‘I recall “I believe I am. I think I know that I am that I am extremely forgetful,” announces the narrator of Percival Everett’s Dr No in the novel’s opening lines. forgetful. Though I remember having forgotten, I cannot recall what it was that I forgot or what forgetting feels like.”
No sooner has the reader crossed the threshold of the narrative than it begins to reveal itself as a labyrinth of mirrors, an elaborate and joyously rickety construction of philosophical gags and structural paradoxes. The novel, Everett’s 23rd,
