This book is giving me a headache to read. It is like being in an alternative reality -the reality described by the narrative character is should I say bent, warped, beyond bizarre...
Bender's quirky novel is absolutely captivating. If you're a fan of the band Soul Coughing read this book-- the whole time I was reading it reminded me of their music-- rhythmic and beautiful.
The main characters life is one of compulsions, strange family members, and people in her life that all somehow connect and make life a little bit stranger. (i felt "at home" in such a book!
Aimee Bender
Wolfgang F. Bender
Harold Stauffer Bender
Billy Aronson
Beatrice Beach MacLeod
Cora Cheney
Michael E. Porter
Mary Pope Osborne
Deborah Kent
Brad Null
Youyi Huang
Howard Egger-Bovet
Kathy Pelta
John Kaufmann
Laszlo Hámori
Malcolm Hall
Norma Gaffron
New Readers Press
Carolyn Zoe Crowder
Gene Montague
Lori Copeland
Sandra Robbins
Jurg Oppliger
Dan Gutman
Paul Sayer
Rheta Norma Pollock Rubenstein
María Luisa Laviana Cuetos
Martin Schwabacher
Walter Brueggemann
P. C. Doherty
David Lodge
Bill Henderson
Brian Moynahan
International Monetary Fund.
Carella Alden
Ralph Straus
Patrick Beavis LYNCH
Morton Puner
M. Druzhinina
Nila Banton Smith
John Smith
Oklahoma. State Dept. of Education.
O. Richard Cummings
Colin Thompson
Vivian Stuart
Scott Corbett
Édouard Krakowski
William McCleery
J. Van de Kreeke
Georges Rodenbach
Paul Déroulède
Louis Marie Desprez
Francisque Sarcey
J. Barbey d'Aurevilly
Glenn Orlando Blough
John Wentworth Sanborn