content: I couldn't get through this book. Too much detail about characters I couldn't get to care about. The "Crazies" are not funny, the others not appealing. I also read Bausch's "Peace" and there, too, found way too much detail - not interesting detail, just detail for its own sake, apparently. I skipped sections in "Peace," because the core of the story is interesting, but I skipped the whole second half of "Thanksgiving Night." Bausch makes some good observations and similies. He has skill, but he needs to know when enough is enough.