Mourning Becomes Her: A Novella Book

A smoky, boozy, sultry black-and-white movie of a book, a tale about two tempestuous British expatriate artists (Jack and Vera) living on inherited money, slowly revealing their dark secrets'as told by Jack's forever-loyal and enabling sister Gin. A story, to use McGrath's words, "that predictably occurs among white people living in hot places with time on their hands and a fondness for liquor."

I'd call Port Mungo a trashy novel but it's far too well written. It's a soap opera about perceptions and deceptions. It's a novel for a few rainy afternoons when you're in the mood for the tribulations of people with no real-life existence troubles who still manage muck up everything.