Women and Men (NP)

[jd]

So I started reading Women and Men by Joseph McElroy a couple of days
ago.  I'm about 60 or 70 pages in and pretty goddamn lost, and
generally I'm pretty good at following stream of conscious styled
writing.  Granted, I've been pretty damn tired the last few days, so
maybe that's it.

Anyways, I was wondering if anyone out there has read it, and maybe
had the same problem, and might perhaps be able to tell me if it gets
a little more coherent later on, and if they consider it worth the
struggle.  I'm on the verge of shelving it for something else but I've
gotten 40 pages in to this book three times in the past five years and
shelved it each time.  I think that this time it's now or never.

That said, I did like the first little bit about the birth.  It just
seems to have gotten incoherent after that point.  Like the author
knew what was going on at all times, perhaps, but didn't give enough
info to the reader to let them know.