After a few pages the seasoned reader will start to suspect where this book is headed, but there's nothing wrong with that. The prose is spare and sharp edged, and often the spaces between the sentences and paragraphs are more telling than is the narrative itself. If you want the equivalent of a character driven mood piece set in a brightly overlit unfurnished white room, with a vaguely Twilight Zone-ish hint of dislocation -- this is the book for you. I skimmed a bit here and there, but this was an entertaining and often admirable read.