Status Updates From I'm Dying Laughing

this one's taking a while. it's interesting but only intermittently any fun. i feel like i need to know a lot more than i do about leftist politics in the late '40s to understand what the characters are talking about a lot of the time. this might not have been a good place to start with christina stead as it's a posthumously published novel that was patched together by her literary executor from 2 abandoned versions