Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s novel, “Your Name Here,” is wry, convoluted, and not for everyone. Yet it offers a surprisingly moving argument for spiky, irregular, sometimes even incomplete literature, Robert Rubsam writes.

Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s novel, “Your Name Here,” is wry, convoluted, and not for everyone. Yet it offers a surprisingly moving argument for spiky, irregular, sometimes even incomplete literature, Robert Rubsam writes.