Review: Joy Williams on Maya Binyam

Word. The word in hangman, the game, could be anything. The word in Hangman, the novel, could be a number of things—choice, home, family, heart, foreigner—none of which will allow our cautious (he tries to make his speech have no meaning) anonymous character to win, or at least continue with his cautious, anonymous life. Only the reader here wins, in th…