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all the healthy husbands and fathers in this book are mysteriously on the periphery.

nobody tell the author about Thomas Aquinas.

L O L. If you think having kids is all rainbows and sunshine, then you’re in for a surprise.

Aside: just interesting to see the difference between a story with a masculine protagonist versus a femme one. - “…learned to cook risotto—she would have become bored, like Saffy, with most of the men she dated.”

yay, therapy!

lol. Oh, no, not this stereotype... - “You had been eating hot dogs every night..”

lol. Yeah, as if the phone number on the website would goes straight to a captain’s desk.

present tense? It’s still active after 11 years? — “She’s been investigating…”

I guess we’re past the midpoint. Was it the realization in the van?

spot on.

Hazel’s terrible mom.

bizarre how we still write the magical twin motif.

so. we are blending Ellis and Ansel for a twist later.

One vague, random paragraph about social justice.

Now I’m confused again. What was Shawna’s motivation for her betrayal? Is she some kind of satist? - “Dear Ansel, one of them begins to read aloud in a high, false woman’s voice…”

Cheryl, another terrible person. Also, her logic concludes that Ellis was never Lavender’s child. - “Oh, Lavender,” Cheryl said. “Ansel was never our child. He was yours.”

I’m not used to reveals lowering the tension.

Lavender names another woman’s baby. Interesting.

Is this that narrator again? - “There was something distinctly feminine about the red and yellow cursive…”

It would be funny if Shawna betrayed him for revenge.

I guess every book nowadays needs a countdown clock, so plot A counts down to doomsday.

What committee? - “…and the committee had pooled the funds…”

Random dream sequence.

What’s the line? “Give me your badge and your weapon!”

This is, supposedly, the omniscient narrator. - “It was the scariest thing about being a woman. It was hardwired, ageless, the part that knew you could have the good without the hurt, but it wouldn’t be nearly as exquisite.”

Obviously, Mikey is a jerk.

Kind of rude. — “She recognized Jenny’s type on instinct: high school pretty…”

Also, what’s this magical databse Saffy is accessing in 1999? Finding a random person without a criminal record in Vermont at a New York police station? Wasn’t it after 9/11 that the FBI began to interconnect police databases?

Anachronism. 56k modem was introduced in 1996. This has hardly old by 1999. - “…the old dial-up system…”

Lol. Professor Brown recommends a student to a philosophy fellowship but he’s a physics professor? Do you understand how many students college professors get a year? For Physics 101, no less?