Pretend I'm Dead (Paperback)

from froxgirl

Quirky, quippy, grotesque - all covered in this brief adventure of a cleaning woman, a modern day slightly older-but-just-as-wiseass-Holden-Caufield, on the wrong path to nowhere. The novel begins in Lowell ("The Hole"), MA, where Mona volunteers handing out clean works to junkies and falls in lo...

from lisapeet

This was an oddball, prickly little book, but well done—it flirts with being what I call misery porn, but is saved by its utter unpredictability at every step. The narrator, Mona, is somewhat of an aimless hot mess in her early 20s, cleaning houses, taking photographs, collecting odds and ends (b...

from Ken-Me-Old-Mate

If I make the analogy of taking a trip, like a trip to the big city is reading a Pullitzer or Booker, a walk in the country is like nature based non-fiction, then this book is like a walk around a part of your home town that you've seen but never really visited because it is a bit seedy, slightly...

from sj1335

ow, this was different! I've not read anything quite like it before or at least in a while. I'm not sure really how to write the review, the protagonist, Mona kept me on my toes that's for sure. Mona seems to be a tortured soul who is a cleaning lady by choice, she takes great pride in her work. ...