Ranting and Reading Collective discussion

This book had me sobbing. I found myself equally annoyed and sad for the main character. Caught in impossible feelings that seem overwhelmingly permanent and unable to really move on, I found a very relatable frustration.

That said, I hated how two dimensional the main two female characters felt through out the story, the brief appearance of Betty in the first and last section had her as a far more fleshed out character than the mother or wife.

The meeting of tragedy and beauty, the full an complex experience of being human felt real on the page to me.