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Title: another great story from poirier
Review: This is Poirier's warmest and most compassionate work to date. He hasn't sacrificed any of the sharp-edged dialogue that's often spit-out-your-drink funny, but he has written a book that is ultimately about two characters changing in the small, incremental ways in which real people change. I thought it was smart and honest and psychologically true. No shiny-happy big-bang fake epiphanies here -- instead, we get the little experiences that gradually accrete and in the end push Kendra and Merv forward into more fully-realized adulthood. The best part is, these changes don't always come with the characters' complicity, or even their full recognition--which, again, feels psychologically true to me. I think it's a hell of a book, and it works on levels far subtler than some reviewers seem to recognize.Plussing as which, it's spit-out-your-drink-funny, too.
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