A review by joelkarpowitz
Ablutions by Patrick deWitt

2.0

I loved DeWitt's The Brothers Sisters, and a coworker lent me this (apparently his first effort) and it didn't really work for me. Maybe it's the second person narration, maybe it's not liking the characters (fitting, since they are all filled with self-loathing also), maybe it's that I don't really want to spend 164 pages reading about an alcoholic's descent to rock bottom, even if it has the DeWitt tendency for dark humor and absurdity still. I'll still read his next book, but this one really missed the mark for me.