Status Updates From The Woman in the Library

"The Metterses' home is beautiful—a Back Bay mansion with formally groomed grounds." (210) a Back Bay what now. Also, no way this family wouldn't be living on Beacon Hill.

"And so we go to Walmart to purchase cell phones." (57) I was told about this line and yet it still stopped me. Pray tell what Boston resident is going to drive to Saugus to a Walmart vs get overnight delivery or, I dunno, go to one of the many phone stores near Back Bay

"'The reality is, I suppose, that I am a straight white man with no diversity or disadvantage to offer as a salve for the fashionable collective guilt that rules publishing. I understand that popular correctness demands that men like me be denied to compensate for all the years in which we were given too much.'" (55) oh so he's a villain