Astonishing novel especially for a first ever. I was hooked from the very beginning I still cannot get over how attracted to the book I was. A nice play on words and very few chapters had my mind drifting. I loved how it all worked out. A bit bummed about the ending but all in all this is an outs...
He hated the damn thing. It was unsolvable. He had begun to wonder if the woman, Helen High and Mighty, had sabotaged it somehow to get back at him for his puzzle snobbery. The colors on the surface were just plastic stickers. She could have easily peeled and reglued a couple of them in the wrong...
I go to retrieve Albert. I had spoken with the doctor at the Hendrix Institute. Laid the groundwork. Albert’s behaviors were under control through medication. Thus he was presumably no longer a danger to himself or to anyone else. I plead my case, spoke of the void in my family, Rachel’s deterior...
AFTER ALL THESE MONTHS of worrying herself to death about it, Louise had finally got up her nerve to ask Boyd for a divorce. And he had hit her. In seventeen years of marriage, Boyd had barely ever raised his voice, and now this. She still couldn’t believe it. He had actually hit her. Louise look...