This was my Memorial Day beach reading and it it the role well, The style brought to mind Coupland and Eggers in and the narrator reminded me of all those of "lost soul stoners" who can't move on after high school that everyone has in their lives. I liked Eli, the main character, and even throu...
I prefer proactive protagonists, and the main character here was just far too sadsack. It also took a little while to get in to the rhythm of the writing. I found myself re-reading sentences again and again to try and follow what I was reading. Once I started performing it in my mind like I was a...
She wasn’t there, not in the usual places. Google gave me nothing. Facebook gave me five Alisons, from as far away as Western Oregon, none her. As if her actual physical existence (which I’d yet to shower off) nullified the need for a 2-D online surrogate. Instead I wrote to Jennifer Estes, who s...