Trouble by Kate Christensen
Posted by crow on Apr 4, 2010 in Crows nest |
I grew weary of this book long before I finished it and dreaded resuming the read. I am not sure what the author was after with this book but I found it pedantic, tangential, and way too focused on the internal dialogue of the main character. Who cares what she eats for breakfast or that she has a good pee? It does have sexually explicit love scenes but I did not find them erotic. There seems to be an underlying theme of guilt to the story. Women who leave their husbands or have affairs with younger men end up in trouble. I can just picture a Catholic nun wacking the characters with a ruler. I am sure that Christensen deserved to win the 2008 Pen/Faulkner Award for another book but certainly not this one.
Thanks for the post Cay. I hope we can get others involved.