I bought this several years ago and just now got around to it, but I think I could have skipped it completely. I gave up after 50 pages. The plot isn't very compelling, same goes for the characters and Shafer's writing style is borderline pretentious and annoying. Made up words that are supposed to capture the zeitgeist, but instead come off as just silly are a major disappointment. I would have stuck with it if the whole thing had been about Leo, who gets fired from a daycare center and throws a stuffed frog at his former boss, but unfortunately, the revolving door of other characters just didn't do it for me.