I feel like I need to be come clean on this one. I picked this book because there is a squirrel on the cover. Oddly, I do not really like squirrels when they are racing around my yard, but I do enjoy cute pictures of them and a story about them now and then. So yes, I judged this book by the cover. ...
The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth Mckenzie is a character study of two disparate people with dysfunctional families and their ability or inability to form a strong relationship. Parts are funny as stories about quirky people and dysfunctional families often are. Mostly though, the book is slow-moving...