Take Me, Take Me with You

by Lauren Kelly

Found this on the paperback table at a Borders one rainy (hurricane) night. And then found it again through the GIL system...

A very strange sort of suspense novel. Another novel where the characters are more archetypes than actual people, but it was interesting. And not so much scary as disturbing. It's supposed to be about the cycle of love and hate, attraction and fear. And it acheives some of those metaphors, made me think some about "f%#*ed up individuals" and the people who make them that way. And the main character also bears a striking resemblance to Laura in Tennessee Williams' Glass Menagerie, but I wasn't sure if that was an allusion or a lack of originality on the author's part.

"Still, I liked it that men's eyes drifted onto me sometimes in public places, and snagged like fishhooks. It wasn't my fault, I was blameless. I encouraged no one. I deceived no one. If I seemed to promise something I was not, the misinterpretation was not my own"