Garry Walton’s Reviews > How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? > Status Update

Magda Eklund reminds me a bit of other main characters I've met through the years - Toole's Ignatius Reilly, Proulx's Quoyle, and Honeymann's Eleanor Oliphant -- relatively unattractive but still sympathetic. This is an anti-Odyssey: a aged female protagonist, far from heroic, undertaking a endless exhausting journey not toward but away from home and family and memories.