eleanor rigby

"Lonely lives are filled with ritual to ward off the void of evenings spent alone . . ."

Reading: Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland
Lead characters Liz Dunn (36 years old, single, loner, just had two wisdom teeth extracted) and Jeremy (Liz’s long-lost son from a teen pregnancy, 20 years old, rehashing memories of foster families and reliving visions as his health spirals down from multiple sclerosis) seem as if they popped out from a Chuck Palahniuk novel (i.e. Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Fight Club). The story, however, is entirely Coupland’s.

I believe in what travelers say that the journey is more important then the destination. For most part in my reading the actual unraveling of the story is more important than the ending. A good ending is just a big fat bonus. But right now I can’t wait to find out how Coupland is going to tie everything together, or not.