AT A LOSS FOR WORDS

 Diane Schoemperlen. AT A LOSS FOR WORDS. HarperCollins, 2008.

This is my first reading of this author although her  Forms of Devotion awaits. I suspect that this first-person narrative of an affair (a lover returned after decades) is an effort to write a novel with an unsympathetic and often irritating protagonist who learns nothing but diagnoses the lover with a personality disorder. It would be funny if it weren't so sad.