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does this book actually think it has a sexual ethic

“clocked” AGAIN, this in a *third* character’s voice

if the title refers to what I think it does: ew

“clocking.” one of the pitfalls of multiple narrators is the author’s pet diction creeping into more than one voice

nice

already on our fifth narrator

already on our fifth narrator

danger! perspective shift!

🎶 In the swallow, -all -all-ows

they keep saying “years” when it’s been *decades*

for the want of Liane Moriarty...

trying to imagine a social circle of four families where every last person plays chess

I see we’ve saved our most expansive sympathies for those most deserving

duh

why are these parents so dumb

too dull for satire, too caustic for tragedy

the limits of meritocracy

alternate title: The Company of Assholes

the au pair wife is so cliched I can’t take it seriously

about 1/4 through this is as superficial as its milieu

he might be up to something, I can’t tell yet. but this is neither careful nor audacious prose