I Am Come into My Garden: A Love Story

Eve Challoner Pella is an MPP constituency assistant and a past
executive committee member of the PTA in Toronto.

This diarylike narrative of three years in the life of an unlikable
middle-aged man is divided into three sections that chronicle the
man’s loneliness, longing, and unanswered need; fulfilment through his
relationship with a younger woman; urge for separation, then final
unification with his wife through the birth of their child. While the
story has some merit, the narrator is prosaic in his writing style,
shallow in his judgments, immature, and selfish. If Wargon’s intention
was to portray the superficiality of me-generation thinking, he has
achieved his objective; unfortunately, it isn’t a terribly worthy one.