Full disclosure: I received an ARC of this book from Goodread's first reads giveaways. I've given it a two star, or "it was ok" rating because I found the book rather inconsistent. It's a collection of short stories or vignettes, focusing on different women whose lives are all sort of connected in some way. Fittingly, the stylistic choices for each little vignette vary, but in my opinion, some of these choices work and some, not so much. At worst, a chapter reads like an excerpt from my 16 year old self's hypothetical diary (the very first chapter, yuck), but at best the ending lines of one chapter made me tear up a little on the train. That would be the section about the woman who writes study guides for grade school kids' standardized tests. So considering the whole book, that story and the one about the group of young adults playing irresponsible games in the car were the only sections that had any real resonance for me. The rest of the book, for me, sits firmly in bland, unmemorable chick lit territory.