Everyone’s personal fears and imaginings are projected onto the event of his disappearance. And then we find that Lanny, when absent, is a vehicle for people’s fantasies. We’ve come to understand that Lanny, when present, is present as a series of effects in people’s minds. But for all its apparent sentiment about its special, magical boy, Porter’s book is far from being a genre-compliant missing-child narrative. the novel does a clever thing: Lanny himself is an absence at the center of the story, always glimpsed from other people’s perspectives he speaks only in their recollections. It has a simple plot and the right number of likeable people. what’s weirder and more wonderful about Lanny is that it finds a way-with no time wasted-to bring together all the essential signs of England. What’s weird and wonderful about Lanny is that it pays attention to and celebrates all the things ordinary people in an ordinary village say, finding them remarkable.
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