Evie Cavallo is a young woman who lives in a shoe. To be specific, she rents a twenty-foot-tall cowboy-boot-shaped building, with an industrial-grade kitchen and deteriorating bistro chairs. She has to inform confused visitors, repeatedly, that this is her home. What is this doing to her psychologically, Evie wonders. Also: could it be true? “ Dwelling ,” Emily Hunt Kivel’s kooky, endearing fairy tale of a début novel, is interested in the wobbly line between what’s real and what’s not, and in the way that saying things can make them so. What We’re Reading

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Evie’s hero’s journey begins, as so many do, with a problem that spurs her to action: she, along with every other renter in New York City, is being evicted to make way for vaca

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