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Lara
May 08, 2017 rated it it was ok
@markmonday says it much better than I ever could:

"A microscopic fascination with the drab and the commonplace. characters are supposedly realistic but, to me at least, lifeless does not equal real. every single person in the world has an interior life that is more interesting than the way they would look in a snapshot doing some tedious chore. the book itself was rather a chore."
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