McKenna’s Reviews > The End of Romance > Status Update

“Nobody but Elaine had given her their anger before”

BS- the man you’ve been seeing for like many years now literally has- he wanted to sit with you during the kavanaugh hearing and when the news articles came out he called you so you could be angry together. And despite the fact that he was angry (in large part on your behalf), YOU said he calms you down too much and so you can’t stand him. I hate this mc

I fear this girl just doesn’t know what the fuck she wants

For one- I think the imaginary turtle is a bit silly. For two- I wish there was more distinction in how the text is written on the page for the turtle dialogue

Thus far this (in many ways) feels like a less explicit version of The Piano Teacher and I fucking hated that book so we will see how this goes

Even though this author clearly has a specific opinion of Bard College (which I did not know would be referenced when I picked this book up), it is having gone to Bard that has allowed me to pick up literally any of the philosophy references. I have indeed read all of these pieces so far (especially true as I took a Jewish Thought & Philosophy course which is deeply steeped into this novel)

I picked this book because I wanted a book that seemed like a train wreck to get back into reading and we’re on page 5 and the main character as a girl is calling her parents oppressive and “Hitlers” - this is going to be a fascinating train wreck