Still enjoying this very much, but I suspect it would have been better were it shorter--like the film noirs which it recalls. Suzy, it turns out, had a child--a daughter--whom she deserted. Son, whom she marries in Vegas, was in the same refugee camp as she was. Tough guy, criminal in Vegas, henchmen. Suzy's daughter is also in Vegas, unaware of her mother, but found out by Robert. All the pieces in place. Gangsters, missing daughter now found, found mother now missing, detective. So, I'd like to fly to the ending, but the book is taking its sweet time. I'll know in a couple of days if the extra pages are worth it.
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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