Review: Modern Day Twain!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 1, 2012
The Unbearable Lightness of Prunes is a Mark Twainish character study of a Southern family, especially Jerrold and his fearless Aunt Gin, who enables him to finally stage a full-fledged rebellion against his mother and her insistence on the consumption of stewed prunes. I have had stewed prunes, myself, and I can fully understand how any child forced to eat them would contemplate revenge.What happens is wonderful to behold. Langstaff writes rollicking stories.