The Critical List by John Wenke
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Overview: In The Critical List, a widowed young woman, her leg broken during an abusive, sexually charged incident with her brutal second husband, attends a child’s birthday party at a seedy indoor play rink. A retired cop can’t stop fixing a brain-damaged war vet’s problems. The Hollywood soap opera writer of “Dawn Becomes the Darkness” tangles with fraying family ties, while anticipating disasters about to erupt on what he calls “the post-contemporary tundra.”
In this world, people teeter on the edge—a former jailbird under house arrest; a would-be teenage parricide; a former philosophy professor, now homeless, mind blown, living in the subway underground.
Wenke’s collection dramatizes what it means to push up against the boundaries of desire, even when one is often turned away, and it reminds us that somewhere in the murk of humanity the balm of comedy occasionally delivers relief.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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