The Waiting Room

In a ``sagely provocative'' novel, Zoe Coleman is summoned to her Midwest hometown, where her drug-ruinedstet?/yes/pk brother is institutionalized. ``A highly accomplished storyteller, Morris captures with humor and perspicacity the complex ways of women with men and with i prefer to stet each other unless this is incorrect/i'm trying not to change quoted material unless it's wrong/pk one another,'' commended PW . (June)