Ella Minnow Pea

First published by MacAdam/Cage in 2001,Mark Dunn’s novel Ella Minnow Pea celebrates its twentieth anniversary under the roof of Penguin/Random House and the British publisher Methuen. Over the years it has become a mainstay of book clubs and middle-school and high-school English classeshas inspired a stage musical LMNOPand is the recipient of multiple accoladesincluding winning the 2001 Borders Original Voices competition for fiction. Set on a fictional island off the coast of South CarolinaElla Minnow Pea takes readers to the homeland of the late Nevin Nollopthe inventor of the pangram \