Melissa James Gibson always seems to be writing about what's not been happening to her characters. In"[sic]", her subjects were young New York dilettantes, filling their undistinguished days with witty commentary on their own failure to thrive. In "Current Nobody," the gap she played with was the one in a modern family, modeled on Odysseus's in "The Odyssey," that widened painfully with the long absence of a parent w…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:50PM on October 17, 2013