While in bed
with his knife-wielding ex-girlfriend, a “Lonely Man” ponders his sexual
expeditions and his overall d#@ness.
A woman meets
a strange lesbian with a fetish for seducing straight girls in “Cell,” thus
proving that men and lesbians are one in the same.
“Now let’s
see … I have been with a married guy who presented himself as divorced. I
briefly lived with a man who stole money from me. There are the standards, the
ones who try to come off as film producers, surgeons, investors, when at best
they are paper pushers for some low level investment firm. I have met ones who
use flowers, jewelry, even one who sent me a new dress for our first date to
get what he wanted.” (19)
“Single
Woman” is a testament to the clichéd “always a bridesmaid, never a bride.” Reaching her 30th birthday, she now
knows what it’s like to feel old. “No matter what they say, thirty feels old …
to wake up alone, to be without your own family.” (52) It’s when she’s no
longer a single woman does she begin to stray.
Stories were
refreshingly witty and candid. The well-written structure evokes both enjoyment
and rumination. In this book, sex and
love are two opposites of a taboo coin.
My rating: 4 stars
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