![]() ![]() Carmel and Barry's unhappy marriage is the result of what's so ridiculously wrong with our world. I hold him 100% responsible for what he did to his wife, Carmel, but Bernardine Evaristo is far too clever of a writer to make this story one-dimensional. ![]() ![]() Laughed at his jokes, too.ĭon't get me wrong for me, Barry remained a selfish bastard to the very last page. I wanted to throttle Barry, rip up his immaculate suits, and smack him upside the head.īut, since the story is told mostly from Barry's perspective, I got inside his mind, and I understood him a little. He hasn't spent too much time thinking about his wife, back at home, withering like a houseplant that's been kept in the shadows, never watered or fed. Barry's a self-centered son-of-a-bitch who likes his routines, his wealth, his custom-made suits and his sex life with men. This is a heart-breaking story, or, it would have been completely heart-breaking if it hadn't also been hilariously funny in parts. and Barry's gay and his wife doesn't know it, and she's spent 50 years loving him and trying to get him to love her back. For Barry and Carmel Walker it's a little bit of “all of the above.” ![]()
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