I read it on the way home from a vacation last week - I don't think it was meant to be erotic, at least I certainly didn't find it to be. The gross out factor was pretty high, and some passages were cringe-inducing, but I have to say, I enjoyed it. In the end, it's basically a story about a girl who deals with a traumatic event in her childhood in a very bizarre way. If anybody's curious, PM me and I'll be happy to give you the cliff notes version and allow you to avoid the extraneous gore, the core idea of it is sort of sweet/sad/funny and it's sort of a shame that it's been hidden under all the sensationalism (though obviously that's what sold so many copies).
I think that "Wetlands" is the literary version of Cosmopolitan, only shocking to 15 year old girls. By the time your out of high school, it's either meh or yeah right, not happening.
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