Today @KirkusReviews...

...I wrote about Allen Zadoff's Since You Left Me, which I enjoyed enormously:

Sure, it’s a plotline straight out of an episode of Saved By the Bell, but it isn’t the plotline that makes Allen Zadoff's Since You Left Me special: it’s Sanskrit’s voice. As he lies and lies and lies, as he works through his heartache, deals with his family and comes to terms with his feelings about religion and responsibility, his voice is so snarkily hilarious that you’ll laugh through all of the painful moments. At least, I did.

Comments

[marjorie]

ooh, i had real issues with this one -- i agree that it was very funny, but i thought the mother was a hateful cartoon. maybe someday we will get to discuss.

[Leila]

@marjorie: Yes, it'd be a great one discuss, and her character in particular. I definitely see why some readers would read her as less-than three dimensional.