On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon
The problem I'm having is that the father is such a riveting (if loathesome) character, that whenever he disappears from the story for a bit, I'm just waiting for him to return. Not that the rest of characters are poorly drawn...but the father is the one I really want to watch, more than his daughter who is narrating the story. So whenever the action shifts away from dear old Dad, I tend to set the book down and leave it down.