A review by trin
Shoebag by M.E. Kerr, Mary James

2.0

Found out about this when I was looking into [b:Kockroach|396881|Kockroach: A Novel|Tyler Knox|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174421900s/396881.jpg|386356], a recent reverse-[b:Metamorphosis|485894|The Metamorphosis|Franz Kafka|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175148323s/485894.jpg|2373750] tale. This one's a kids' book from about 15 years ago with a similar premise: a cockroach wakes up one morning to find he's turned into a person. That's what I call awesome-strange; the actual book, however, is...bizarre-confusing-strange. There's all kinds of weird stuff about the family that adopts Shoebag-turned-Stuart: the daughter is a child actress who shills toilet paper, and frankly I don't know what to make of any of it; I have no idea what I would have made from it when I was in the appropriate age group. But, um. Maybe I had a more flexible mind then? *wanders away, disconcerted*