This one was not so impressive. Somewhere, somehow -- maybe just on the dust jacket -- I read something that intrigued me, but in the end, I was underwhelmed. Frederick Barthelme's Waveland (Doubleday, 2009). The one-line blurb in the search results when I google "waveland book review" says the novel, "set in post-Katrina Mississippi, concerns a man, his girlfriend, his ex-wife, her lover and lots of TV," and, well, that's about what I came away with, too. The Times reviewer seemed to like it well enough, but it left me cold. Yes, the characters were marginal, pathetic, scraping by the best they knew how ... but I just couldn't bring myself to care that much.
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