`Eleven Karens' by Peter Lefcourt; Simon and Schuster.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | June 4, 2003| | Copyright

Byline: James Ward Lee

"Eleven Karens" is funny, clever, imaginative and slight. It will neither change your life nor give you nightmares. It will, however, provide some hours of entertainment.

The cover proclaims the book a novel, but it is really a series of linked tales by an unnamed narrator who has the odd fortune of being involved with 11 women named Karen between fifth grade and middle age.

The odds of being romantically attached to that many women named Karen are 29,976 to 1. Or so we learn on Page Two. The odds shrink a little when it ...

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