It's funny, I read the piece because of your comment, wanting to see what you meant. The tension between the way she acts and the way her father acts is fascina

It's funny, I read the piece because of your comment, wanting to see what you meant. The tension between the way she acts and the way her father acts is fascinating, grotesque, and kind of beautiful. For me, the story would be really boring if not for that central dynamic of discomfort you picked up on, which is ostensibly caused in part by her father's absence from her life, but not stated in such direct terms. Seems like the author has come to terms with her neuroses, and that she can now write about them frankly and candidly. I'd love to talk with the author at a party.