Title: Funny, tender and desperate: I loved it.
Product review: I'm usually a fan of heavier fiction, but "The Dangerous Husband" really works well as light black comedy. I loved the characters, whose colors always run true -- the loving and fearful wife, the sweet and sinister husband -- and I loved the escalation of mutual injuries as things between the two of them become more dire. Shapiro is especially empathetic with the wife, who sees her marriage as imprisonment with no hope of parole. To those of us who have been there, this insight provides a kind of poignant recognition in the dark fun of the story.I'm off, now, to find myself a wise albino frog ...
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