literary fiction

This is a novel everyone should read, both because of its cultural significance and its (so-called) literary worth. I found it confusing and jumbled until I realized that Vonnegut had deliberately written in the style of one from Tralfamadore, no beginning, no end, everything told at once.

A literary novel about an old man who remembers his youth, when he worked for a traveling circus as a vet.

Very engrossing read about a circus, a love affair, human foibles. It's all bookcased by the man "today", in an assisted living facility, remembering the events that occured in his youth. Recommended.

SYNOPSIS:  Laurel knew there would be trouble when the ghost appeared.  She hadn't seen a ghost in many years but she had to follow this one...right to the body of a young girl dead in the swimming pool.  Laurel is horrified as the young girl is her daughter's best friend.  Even worse, the police question her daughter and it is then she knows she needs her quirky sister, Thalia to help out.  What dark family secrets will be uncovered?

Ask Again Later was so funny I couldn't stop laughing even though I was on the bus and must have looked like an absolute imbecile. If I'd been on a NYC bus maybe people wouldn't have looked twice, but the typical Ithaca bus patron is a bit more level-headed than our downstate friends. Usually.