A review by mujerdee
A Book of American Martyrs by Joyce Carol Oates

3.0

Told from multiple POV‘s, it’s a multiple train wreck of interconnecting stories. This book examines parental selfishness in its myriad and frequently insane faces: workaholism, emotional withholding, addiction, pride, inconstancy. The purple prose became a little much at points. The arguments on both sides of the issue of abortion the characters make are both nauseating and self satisfyingly smug. The ending is too pat to be believable. Not my favorite Oats book.