Katherine's review
The Washington Story by Adam Langer
This sequel to Crossing California features the same charming characters but now just a bit more grown up. Michelle Wasserstrom is a riot, and I imagine Muley just like all the other Art Institute and Columbia College grads who lived and smoked outside my front door a few years back.
As a Chicagoan, I missed a bit of Chicago as character, but I'm not a North Sider so that might be why. What was more important is that Langer hits the nail on the head in his development and consistency in the characters.
I must say, though, I find completely pompous the fact that he includes a glossary at the back of the book filled with such unnecessary entries as "a-ha: 1980s band, perhaps best known for the lavishly animated video of the 1985 hit single 'Take On Me'" and "Pez: Pastel-colored small candies most noteworthy for their amusing dispensers." Give me a break. He is not Dave Eggers.
As a Chicagoan, I missed a bit of Chicago as character, but I'm not a North Sider so that might be why. What was more important is that Langer hits the nail on the head in his development and consistency in the characters.
I must say, though, I find completely pompous the fact that he includes a glossary at the back of the book filled with such unnecessary entries as "a-ha: 1980s band, perhaps best known for the lavishly animated video of the 1985 hit single 'Take On Me'" and "Pez: Pastel-colored small candies most noteworthy for their amusing dispensers." Give me a break. He is not Dave Eggers.
