I was looking for a whimsical book to accompany me on a business trip, and this book was an ideal choice. Nobody will be writing any lengthy dissertations about this book, and a review any longer than a paragraph would treat the material with more seriousness than it demands of its readers. Moore brings a sardonic phrasing to the task of telling this story, and I found myself laughing out loud a few times. In this case, one can judge a book by its cover (a wonderfully tongue-in-cheek illustration by William Staehle). A reviewer criticized Moore’s later works (of which this is one) as not having been well edited, but this book seems as if it was redacted from the original manuscript a bit too much, perhaps as much as 40 pages. I will not give anything away by observing that a significant character shows up toward the end of the book, who should have been present throughout. Moore introduces her to us with a very awkward narrative tool, by which the character explains what she’s been doing since she was a child, until that very moment, which violates my sense of having been told a good yarn. Nevertheless, an amusing and quick read. Good for a few hours on a plane and in the hotel room after a hard day at work.