More interesting. Story has moved to Ben Kipling, money launderer. Threat of violence to Kipling. Author also does a good job describing the hard-to-get-your head around massiveness of the new wealth. Class distinctions between regular rich people and unimaginably rich people and regular people. Our survivor, Scott the Painter, is now staying with another fantastically wealthy person--Layla. Art lover, she can make his career . . . but he is standoffish about her power. Still a bit shell-shocked, though this is one of the least convincing aspects of the book.
PUPPY Dysfunctional family has puppy that they need to get rid of. Mom places ad; family is coming over. Description of family. Mom: husband changed from long-haired attractive to stooped old man. Husband: talks constantly of living on a farm and doing what needs to be done, though he never lived on a farm. Conversations together: Sell and move to Arizona, get hooked on phonics for kids, buying a car wash. . . wonderful randomness. Straight-laced suburbanite comes to look at puppy. Seems like she will buy it, even though she is repelled by house. (Dog turds on carpet, filthy.) She is proud of how accepting she is until she looks out window and sees white trash's son tied by harness to a tree. Reader knows he is a menace to himself, darting across I-90, for example. Suburban mother beats hasty retreat, leaving dog to be (probably) drowned by dad who does what has to be done. Suburbanite remembers her own pathetic ch...
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