Review: Depressing.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 4, 2013
This is a really sad and lonely tale.Cathy is a young woman who dropped out of college,and for a time worked at a supermarket, and who seems very much a loner, who needing to feel some sort of human connection, randomly calls people in her state and silently listens to them until they hang up.One day she gets Seth, whose way of answering the phone actually shocks her enough so that she finds the strength to answer back.On the one hand I found my heart aching for Cathy,her loneliness and her having closed herself off from the world makes her nearly inept at handling any sort of social contact. At the same time,I wish there was more to this book to help us understand her,and  to see whether Seth becomes her compass in the world.I think the author tries to give us some hope, but I still was left feeling kind of empty by this book.To be honest, I'm glad it didn't cost me anything, I would have felt even worse if I had to pay for it, as if I had been tricked, by the cover and book description into thinking there was more to this short story than there actually was, but on the other hand maybe there was just too much symbolism I was just not willing to decipher.