Wellness by Nathan Hill

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Is love at first sight real?
Is my life unfolding as it should?
What is love?
What is the right combination of words to make a person fall in love with you?
Is selling the illusion of a cure the same as actually selling a cure?
This is a loaded book…it’s 600 pages long.
I loved sitting down with this…I was burning through it in 22 days…
At the center of it all are Elizabeth and Jack….
who met before they met…
…in neighboring apartment buildings in Chicago, just across the way from each other….
she sees him…he sees her…
…and then one night at the club where some forgettable INDY band is playing…they run into each other….he makes his move with the simple words
“Come with…”
Then in the delightful expansive way that only a 600-page novel can, we learn about their parents, their kids, their past, the things that make them who they are….then in the future where their kids won’t eat what is in front of them,….the concerns of the middle-aged adult so far removed from the carefree days of their youth…
Adult problems drive a wedge between them…but is it all foretold? Is it fate? What is love? Baby don’t hurt me.
Why do people grow apart?
Why do people believe false things they read on Facebook?
How do people find each other and then become unrecognizable to themselves?
Loved it. Very satisfying. The problems are familiar. The questions are questions I would ask. There were many times during the reading of this book that I just recognized something in myself, in my family, in my life…I thought all about the picky eater section. I recognized the relative that you argue with online…I saw the miserable person who takes your happiness as an insult…These novel hits upon so many truths….and tho it is a paperweight of a book, it never drags. I read it in 22 days which seems pretty fast.
I went out and picked up the Nix from the library.
Hold my calls for the next 22 days.





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