Title: The Broom of the System
First published: 1987
Description: Lenore Beadsman, a 24-year-old telephone switchboard operator who gets caught in the middle of a Cleveland-based character drama. In Wallace's typically offbeat style, Lenore navigates three separate crises: her great-grandmother's escape from a nursing home, a neurotic boyfriend, and a suddenly vocal pet cockatiel. The controlling idea surrounding all of these crises is the use of words and symbols to define a person.
Subjects: Fiction, Missing persons, Popular culture, Grandmothers, Young women, Fiction, humorous, Grandparents, fiction, Missing persons, fiction, Cleveland (ohio), fiction, Young women, fiction, Fiction, humorous, general
Places: Cleveland (Ohio)
Time periods: 80's