"The Pumpkin Eater "is a surreal black comedy about the wages of
adulthood and the pitfalls of parenthood. A nameless woman speaks,
at first from the precarious perch of a therapist's couch, and her
smart, wry, confiding, immensely sympathetic voice immediately
captures and holds our attention. She is the mother of a vast,
swelling brood of children, also nameless, and the wife of a
successful screenwriter, Jake Armitage. The Armitages live in the
city, but they are building a great glass tower in the country in
which to settle down and live happily ever after. But could that
dream be nothing more than a sentimental delusion? At the edges of
vision the spectral children come and go, while our heroine, alert
to the countless gradations of depression and the innumerable forms
of betrayal, tries to make sense of it all: doctors, husbands,
movie stars, bodies, grocery lists, nursery rhymes, messes, aging
parents, memories, dreams, and breakdowns. How to pull it all
together? Perhaps you start by falling apart.
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