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Scottish author offers up a lesbian search for Godot

Waiting for Matindi

by Helen Hodgeman Ballantine Books, $10.95 trade paper Reviewed by Michelle Tomko

This new book by Scottish author Helen Hodgman is sure to warm up the bodies of snowed-out Ohioans with its grand location in the sunny Australian countryside and beach. But it will also heat up the spirit with the honest, insecure cynicism that plagues the main character as she struggles day to day with issues that face even the most welladjusted member of the collective un-

conscious.

While the weather is still ripe for curling up by the fire with a good book, take the time to enjoy this easy read.

The story begins with our nameless narrator recovering from surgery while her lover is writing a tome about the history of musical notation. They are at a borrowed country house just outside Sydney.

Within the first pages, we get the drift that all is not well with the relationship, nor is our guide happy with the way her life is going, à la Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House.

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What ensues is a personal vision quest that is symbolized through the narrator's friend Theresa and the wait for Theresa's lover, the almost mythical Matindi, whom she met in Kenya.

The best part about this book is that it's not a story about being gay. It's a story in

which the main characters just happen to be gay. That's very refreshing. The problems that the characters face are not centered on their sexuality, but rather their humanity.

There are also interesting subplots. We meet a man trying to pick up the pieces after his wife leaves him, their son, and their big dog Brucey. We also encounter Johnny and Toula, a couple that own a Lebanese bodega, and Elliot, the eccentric nephew of the narrator's lover.

Unfortunately, one of the few drawbacks of the book is that we never get to really know the narrator's lover. She is really an outsider in the whole story. The narrator speaks to us in a distracted, descriptive, thinking-outloud kind of way that is both witty and fa-

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miliar. We only get to see things from her perspective. But author Hodgman has a unique ability to invoke her words with clarity and sincerity, so that you don't mind world seeing the through her eyes.

This fiction seems to ring autobiographically true, as Hodgman herself has taken many odd

jobs to support her writing career. She has also moved from place to place, perhaps in a search of her own. But she is certainly a natural born writer.

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