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Unhealthy Boundaries: A Story of Murder & the Internet |
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 Unhealthy Boundaries:A Story of Murder & the Internet by Robert Tolins Dry Bones Press 203 pages, 2000 ISBN 1883938686 Reviewed by John A. Broussard, PhD Read another review by Lisa Eagleson-Roever Unhealthy Boundaries is old wine in a modern bottle. The old wine is the oft-told story of a marriage grown stale. The modern bottle is today’s technology, which provides solace for a jaded couple. Alice and Jason McMahon are Boston attorneys who have twenty years of married life behind them, two adolescent children, and not much else in common. Alice spends her spare hours watching television. Jason spends his on the Internet – even during hours he should be working. Jason’s addiction leads to a steamy, torrid love affair - all on line - and all at a distance of three thousand miles. His involvement becomes frantic - then is suddenly broken off. Soon afterwards, a call comes from the Los Angeles Police Department. Sharon Sommers, the cyberspace lover, has been brutally murdered and Jason is a suspect. The plausibility of the charge is sufficient to convince the Massachusetts court to allow Jason’s extradition to California. There are really two stories - both remarkably well told - in this brief novel. The first is of a man coping badly with his middle age crisis, while the shadowy figure of his wife hovers in the background. The second is of a loyal wife who, in spite of what she gradually discovers about her husband, fights to save him from conviction for a crime he swears he did not commit. I would advise the reader of this book to reserve time to read Unhealthy Boundaries at one sitting. It’s not easy to put down once begun, and if you do, it will plague you until you can get back to it to find out what happens to this modern marriage confronted by an age old dilemma. |
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