(Riverhead Books)Sammie and Monika’s marriage is not unusual. They’ve assumed roles, chosen at first, but, as time has passed, those roles, and how they have come to define them, are now limiting, causing resentments. Sammie has slipped into the main caregiver, mother role, of Samson, named after Sammie, their son. Samson is presented as a troubled boy, emotionless, perhaps tending towards sociopathic, but the thing is, it’s Sammie who is doing the telling, and Sammie is the epitome of unreliable narrators. … (read more)
