Synopsis
A wife discovers her husband with a sex doll in their garage. Rather than being infuriated, she becomes interested in this doll. They bring it into their life and it takes over their lives, becoming sort of obsessed and leading them to tragedy.
History
First publication: TusQuets, January 28, 2002
Review
This was interesting. I’ve never read a book like this before. It is erotic literature. Not your smutty romance novel aimed at housewives though. This novel attempts to go higher than that. The result is kind of surreal, kind of disjointed and with plenty of sex. Not romance, just sex. This book is like a stream of consciousness flow of erotic fantasies surrounding a married couple who no longer know how to touch one another. Or maybe the doll is a metaphor for how their sexual relationship has lost feeling and lost romance and is just mechanical or self-satisfying without regard for the other person? It’s hard to say. The writing is really what drew me to this. The author does let her imagination go and lets her characters take the sex into a dreamland with a rich variety of other thoughts interfering and altering it. I can’t say this is great and I don’t really think I can recommend it, yet I still liked reading it. I just don’t know who I would recommend it to. Not your ordinary romance readers. Not your highbrow literary readers. -Gregory Kerkman
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We have the story in these editions:
Satisfaction, trade paperback, Grove Press, 2004-07-15
