Katelyn's review
Missing Mom: A Novel (P.S.)
by Joyce Carol Oates
Katelyn's review
Missing Mom: A Novel (P.S.) by Joyce Carol Oates
Katelyn's review
rating:
Disappointed by the standardized characters and the gimmicky cop who saves the day. This character's major struggle is how to become a married woman cliche. Oates is writing about ordinary people who are struggling to be ordinary, who metamorphise through types (hence Niki's constant self-awareness of her 'punk' hairdo and the 'standard' brown hair shoulder-length hairdo at the end) But it's illuminating to the human perpective if you can step back from it and realize what the character herself doesn't. But DAMN IT, it's boring!!
