THE GUEST ROOM (Chris Bohjalian) - February 9/16

I'll admit that for the first 50 pages or so, I was really hating this. Too descriptive and too meandering. But there did reach a point at which The Guest Room morphed into a typically solid Bohjalian read, albeit one that is way too long and too meandering. (What's with the lengthy flashback right at the end?) Weird that the affable central character dies, though. *** out of ****