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relentless squalor

now skimming

so far this is just a litany of miseries

Crackerjack start

what a colossal miscalculation. now I am not even sure this is a novel.

a HUGE misstep

“what’s going on”

“what’s up”

play like anachronisms

the script is a misstep

dicey thing introducing elective abortion into the first chapter… our 57-year-old narrator evidently has given no thought to being a grandmother

at least twice now her phone has interrupted her just before a kiss

The banter is fine and even witty in places, but there is just. so. much. of it, with accompanying tilts of head or narrowing of eye of turn of corner of mouth or or or or

this is often what longing to write feels like

the restaurant scene is genuinely moving

narrator’s assumptions remain unexamined