Title: A disappointing and far-fetched read.
Product review: Tama Janowitz's creation, Pamela Trowel, is one of the most self-defeating and sorry protagonists I've seen. Janowitz piles on the problems for Pamela, but doesn't equip her with the sense or the wit to cope. It's one thing for an unrelenting series of bad things to happen to a character, and quite another when the protagonist does nothing about them, or worse, brings them on herself. For instance, seeing a bad psychiatrist who holds his sessions in a bar is something that should be easily remediable. The point where I decided the book wasn't worth it anymore was where Pamela comes across a severed head in a plastic bag, decides it's one of those fake severed heads from a novelty shop, and merrily takes it to the kid she is sort-of, kind-of kidnapping. Well, oops, it was an actual bloody, messy severed head, and we are supposed to believe that she couldn't tell the difference. No, and if she truly is that ignorant, I have no interest in her story.
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