The Appointment

';Darkly funny.' The Guardian * ';Transgressive...incendiary.' The New Yorker * ';A furious comic monologue...with a disregard for propriety worthy of Alexander Portnoy.' The New York Times Book Review * ';Sexy, hilarious, and subversive.' The Paris Review A whip-smart debut novel in which a woman on the verge of major change addresses her doctor in a stream of consciousness narrative. In a well-appointed examination in London, a young woman unburdens herself to a certain Dr. Seligman. Though she can barely see above his head, she holds forth about her life and desires, her struggles with national and sexual identity. Born and raised in Germany, she has been living in London for several years, determined to break free from her family origins and her haunted homeland. But the recent death of her grandfather, and an unexpected inheritance, make it clear that you cannot easily outrun your own shame, whether it be physical,