Reading Note: Lipsyte, The Climber Room #10

Sam Lipsyte
The Climber Room
From the 11/21/11 New Yorker
#10  in the I will read and take brief notes on 300 short stories series

Tovah is in her later-30s and like many other people, underemployed, drifting, lonely. There has been an annoying biological switch that has suddenly set to "baby," even though she is contented being alone. She works in a day care center and a parent who calls himself Randy Goat pays particular attention to her. Themes of economic breakdown, gender, and body image, and sexism; they are all here.