And Now You Can Go

And Now You Can Go (2003) by Vendela Vida. The plot of this one is pretty easy to summarize. A young woman named El is confronted by a stranger with a gun in Central Park. In the end, he doesn't harm her, but she is left traumatized and spends the rest of the book recovering. Her relationships with others, men in particular, make up a substantial portion of the rest of the book. I found them to be pretty sketchy, and I didn't like her way of referring to men by their outstanding characteristics (good or bad) rather than by their names. Other than that, the book was pretty much worthwhile reading. Grade: B