DaveNash3 reviewed The understory by Pamela Erens
Review of 'The understory' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
After reading Erens' The Virgins I came across this, which is completely different except for how the plot is clear and it all comes together at the end.
The narrator is Salinger-esque with OCD. He's his own worse enemy. I guess in some ways we should feel bad because he's getting evicted from his apartment. However I lived near the upper west side when the MTA did away with tokens and $210 a month rent was criminal. You'd be lucky to pay ten times that. Maybe the book should be We Didn't Start The Fire.
But I realized I would be happy if that was my rent and I got a check for $500 every month.
Again the times they are a changing and the poor narrator doesn't have the life skills or support system.
