Title: Only the date of issue saves this trash
Product review: To term this work dreadful may still be too complimentary. Here we have a work that tries to be Tennessee Williams and ends up with the depth of Green Acres (though, sadly, without its humour.) Scanning the reviews on this board, however, made me realise how it is selling so well - mental illness (real or counterfeit), exploring the "dysfunctional familes" and "chidlhood memories" and trite psychobabble are so popular that their adherents would give anything of the genre the status of Macbeth. Those reviewers who became defensive or accused those with contrary views of being "in denial" and the like had me laughing aloud - the book, which deals not with the trendy but with the truly sick, was far too tragic to do so.
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