‘I fled before it was over but if you want witnesses then I am one and I can tell you now, when you say that he redeemed the world, I will say that it was not worth it. I’m not going to do this book justice in a short review like this, so I will direct you to Another Book Blog and urge you to read it and I will quote this passage, which says absolutely everything: Provocative, haunting, and indelible, Colm Tóibín’s portrait of Mary presents her as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that become the narrative of the New Testament and the foundation of Christianity. What can I say, I really loved laughing at dumb tourists who paid $2 to hold on to what were essentially a couple of vibrators.
It’s a futuristic fairy tale with a strong moral message at the end, and usually I hate that, but I don’t know, I guess my 90s nostaligia got the better of me. It was all those things the Addams Family are – cheesy and campy in the extreme – but somehow it worked. We had a Addams Family “electrocution test” machine which supposedly tests your ability to withstand electric shocks conducted through two metal rods that you hold onto, but the rods actually just vibrated. I was reminded of my years working in a haunted house – the one located under the roller coaster in West Edmonton Mall, which is supposedly haunted by the people who died in the derailing in 1986. This book is like The Addams Family: morbid, cheesy, campy, and ultimately harmless. Until the youngest member of the family threatens to destroy their contented misery by confronting them with something they’ve never encountered before: a love of life. The Tuvaches go mournfully about their business, taking pride in the morbid service they provide. Run by the Tuvache family for generations, the shop offers an amazing variety of ways to end it all, with something to fit every budget. And business is brisk at The Suicide Shop. With the twenty-first century just a distant memory and the world in environmental chaos, many people have lost the will to live.
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