Tom’s Reviews > White Noise > Status Update

“A woman who harbors a terrible secret. A man with a haunted look. A man who never comes out of his room. A woman who stands by the letter box for hours, waiting for something that never seems to arrive. A man with no past. A woman with a past. There is a smell about the place of unhappy lives in the movies that I really respond to."
"Which one are you?" I said.
"I'm the Jew. What else would I be?"

Jack describes his wife, Babette, ample, with a blond mop, a lover of life unlike his previous wives. They and their daughters from previous marriages have lunch. Heinrich, Jack’s only son, comes in, studies the scene and leaves.