Hal is a mild-mannered IRS bureaucrat who suspects that his wife is cheating with her younger, more virile coworker. At a drunken dinner party, Hal volunteers to fly to Belize in search of Susan's employer, T.—the protagonist of Lydia Millet's much-lauded novel How the Dead Dream—who has vanished in a tropical jungle, initiating a darkly humorous descent into strange and unpredictable terrain.
My thoughts
This is the story of Hal, who goes through life just being; he is married to Susan who he believes is having an affair with a co-worker. They have a daughter who after having an accident is a paraplegic and her parents think she is a telemarketer, but in reality is a phone sex operator. Susan’s boss is missing in Belize and Hal suggests that he himself travel down to there to find him. He is trying to prove that he is man enough for Susan or is he trying to add something that is missing from his life? This is a story about mid-life crisis and self-examination. It may be an interesting read for some, but too cerebral for me.
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