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First I will admit: it might be more my fault, not the book. There wasn't going to be much of this book that would interest me. I didn't connect with the book. This book is a little like 'Fates & Furies' by Lauren Groff (that I disliked) and all the Jonathan Franzen novels (that I have no interest in reading at all.) It seems to hit all those Franzen tropes that I seem to know about without reading his books. The main character is a man who teaches philosophy, though the book is named after the wife's work. The father-in-law and his ongoing mental problems also take much of the stage. It's odd to see a woman writer write a WMFU novel, that's for sure. Not the worst book, but I seem to be missing what was trying to be said. This book also was inspired by 'Elizabeth Costello' by Coetzee that I read before reading this book. There are slight connections, but nothing I would say worth mentioning the book in the acknowledgements for. A possible incident that almost happened in an aquarium would have made this a more interesting book.

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