An ambulance is on the way Book

Jonathan, who I must disclose is a friend, is a wonderful writer, gracious, tender, and above all insightful and very very funny. This collection, especially when he transparently projects his own middle-aged woes and anxieties, is hilarious. His depictions of his mother as the archetypal meddling, obtuse and tone-deaf blue-rinsed matriarch, bullying her long-suffering husband and mortally embarrassed son, set a very high bar of cringiness. A lovely quick read. My only criticism would be that the final couple of stories are of such different subject-matter that they seem taked on, as if there weren't enough stories to flesh out the book. But as they are great reads too, it hardly matters.