Completed: 12/21/2020
Recommendation: Not recommended
Recommended By: An Obama list of books
Words for which I sought help:
cicatrix -- a scar left by the formation of new connective tissue over a healing sore or wound
Review:
This book was well written and the author had some excellent turns of phrase, "The kitchen was a nauseating never-cleaned sty that smelled like a mental illness." Despite that, I found the subject matter ugly. Who is cheating on whom with whom and wreaking havoc on one another's mental state is not something that I find interesting. If this is intended as a cautionary tale, I already have that caution. If this is not, then it feels more like a Peeping Tom kind of novel. It largely made me uncomfortable for the privacy of fictional characters.
The rant on the Republican party was prescient. It was reflective of Bush, but it was also projective of Trump. I try hard to pay attention, but Franzen was completely on it.
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