I place a lot of importance on the care of the elderly within a family. I'm also a child of divorce, and like all children of divorce I want to see my parents back together. When my parents eventually need to be taken care of, all I have to do is stick their new partners in nursing homes and then I'll look after them myself--at home. I'll put them together in their matrimonial bed until they die.
Charlotte Roche, Wetlands, trans. Tom Mohr (London: Fourth Estate, 2009).
Hummm. A most promising prologue for a debut novel that has been considered 'puerile porn' and made people faint at public readings.
But, what the hell, isn't this just another fairly obvious roman-à-clef? Well, at least the author has had the good sense of expressly asking her parents, the poor things, not to read the book...
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