What good are men when a woman can have shoes? According to Carmen Robertson, the central character in Shoe Fetish by Sharon Bennett and Beatrice Moore, dealing with the later is infinitely less troubling. Carmen, Bethany, and the inexplicably named TheLetter, become friends and grow up in 1970's San Antonio, "Land of the Spurs & the Alamo." Like most teen girls they spend considerable time dating, talking, and thinking about boys. The high-school reunion is a pivotal point in the novel. It is a night of reminiscing, bar-hopping and encounters with former boyfriends who have changed little over the years, and ends with a violent death at the hands of one of them.