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Location: Texas, United States

I've been married to the same man for over 30 years. I'm one of the most introverted people I know. I share my home with two Siberian Huskies. I have a grown stepson who lives in another city. At work, I'm known as the Kitty Whisperer (aka Crazy Cat Lady). As a child, I was subjected to severe physical, emotional, sexual and verbal abuse. My father committed suicide almost a decade ago. Within the last 2 years, I've had a mastectomy, chemo, radiation and reconstruction surgery. I suffer from chronic severe depression and post traumatic stress disorder. I work in an absolutely crazy environment. Even my therapist and psychiatrist have said so. I'm living proof that things can always get worse. But I'm pretty entertaining about all of it.

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Garden State, Rick Moody



The book was described by one reviewer as a teenage version of Mrs. Bridge. It's a tough Jersey world where kids lose their way in ennui, drugs, alcohol and mental illness. Their parents are unavailable, being busy with their own sad lives, unable to cope or just plain uninterested.

One of the characters spends most of her time longing for the days when she believed rock and roll stardom was within her grasp. Time mowed down her dreams. Unable to imagine a new future, she drifts along in an alcoholic haze.

Lane, a young man with an unidentified serious mental illness attempts to kill himself with the help of some friends who insist that he go to a party with them. They want to help him find his way back to that storied past in which they're all stuck in one way or another.

In the end, there's no redemption. Garden State is bleak, but beautifully written.

1 Comments:

Blogger jumpinginpuddles said...

yes it doesn sound interesting reading bleak books are good for sunny days, then the depression isnt so bad, read them on a rainy day it is not good.
We dont know if we would read this one though

12:49 PM  

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