Sudden Rain

To quote another reviewer: "I enjoyed this book very much, and I'm still not sure why." There were parts of it that were really powerful. The end seemed to go strangely batshit, and feels sort of like an author who got tired of her characters. I like to think it's why she put it in the refrigerator.......more

So much brilliance here - loved it. Major Ice Storm vibes. This came to me as a recommendation from Bret Easton Ellis, and that makes perfect sense - the LA milieu, the early 70s, California ennui, upper middle class domestic drama. For a novel written in and set around 1970, it was crazy prescient......more

I enjoyed this book very much, and I'm still not sure why. But thirty years in a refrigerator didn't make it less appealing!......more

Breathe, breath, aspiration. Wolff is at her best here. Her principle characters eddy, bob, and jam in a stream of human coincidence. I love her gift for dialogue and her precision in crafting characters who live and breathe. The ending of this novel took my breath away. I love this novel as a period......more

My friend DG has been recommending Wolff to me for about a year. She was his 2007 discovery. The lowdown on this forgotten novelist is that at age 22 she wrote this total blockbuster called Whistle Stop about a skanky family outside of Detroit. That was in 1941. She continued to produce novels for t......more