Waiting to find out who your roommate will be is like waiting to find out the results of your arranged marriage. Granted, a roommate is more of a short-term commitment — maybe — but we're talking about someone who will wake up with you, go to bed…
Irving is brilliant with language, his wild descriptions of family and relationship dysfunction that, in the end, ring fairly true and lie just beyond the norm. There are no clearly delineated villains or angels. Instead, Irving characters are painfully, blessedly human, flawed and terrified and ...