A review by ms_tiahmarie
Show Them a Good Time by Nicole Flattery

~Even the catastrophe of my own life was something I managed with amazing slowness.~

~At seventy, after suffering several dissappointments, the first being my mother, the second being me, my father died.~

~They were a good pairing because she was a strange person pretending to be a normal person, and he was a normal, well-raised person desperately pretending to be strange.~

~They said I was like a person vacuum-packed, sucked in tight, motionless. My boyfriend compared me to a painting of a glowing, alien foetus he had once seen - powerful but unborn.~

~The first time his wife called the Police the woman went to the station with her own mother. They drove in silence. In the reception, they say side by side and her mother advised her to just be herself, as if that - the whole process of being herself - wasn't exactly why she was here in the first place.~