Better written than The Plot, in my opinion.

But her storytelling is too slow for me. The book would be far better if it was half as long.

Not much happens.

I understand the very end of the LONG book gets better. But I quit at 50%. 😀

Critic love Jean Hanff Korelitz. This is her 8th book.

But it has all the characteristics of books I don’t like:

• rich people, inexplicably miserable
• ponderously TELLS instead of simply showing details
• no characters to cheer for
• everyone lies needlessly — resulting in the unneccessary conflicts

If you ignore plot and characters, there are some interesting discussions on:

• In vitro fertilization
• Jews
• Mormons
• College life
• Art
• mocking extreme liberal schools
• mocking extreme conservative thinking