Lenore Beadsman’s life becomes very complicated all of a sudden when her great-grandmother and twenty-five other people vanish from a nursing home, her cockatiel starts talking without pause, and the telephones at the company she works for go crazy. While looking for her missing great-grandmother, she has to confront other members of her family and her family’s history, and acknowledge the lack of control she has over her own life. Lenore is sort of a blank canvas that others project their needs on, for instance, […]
Plateaus of Spasmodic Weirdness
The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace





