***** wonderful, strange, well-written novel about a "hard-to-grasp" animal

* short storeis by svevo

* reminded me of roberto bolaño; parentheses tic wearies (punctuation fails me)

preposterous, pretentious, wanna-be fiction

**** moving parable

* teenage years; some early fritz the cat (g-rated); a few nice drawings

*** a fable that recaps some of saunders' favorite themes