I Am Unconsoled :(

So I am still slogging through this monstrosity....ughh!! I probably have been reading too may YA and Middle Grade titles to appreciate something like The Unconsoled. It is just an incredibly frustrating read. I absolutely hate the obtuseness of the narrator. He doesn't have any idea of what is going on yet never seeks to clear the picture at all. I was talking to my wife about it and mentioned that it was completely kafkaesque. My son overheard the conversation and said the plot was directly taken from a scene in a Kafka novel. So maybe if I was more up on my Kafka I would appreciate it more.
Two other books on my bedside are Barbara Tuchman's March of Folly, about the self destructive behavior of great nations throughout history, and Autobiography of a Face by  Lucy Grealy that Jennifer Mann suggested when I went on a rant about how ludicrous and false I found Wonder to be.

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