This book is very funny. It’s also the kind of book that if the first page does not work for you, you should stop immediately. It begins with an authorial lamentation against the onset of World War II because of the ways that a momentously life-changing event like the war would drown out the lives of the small people, especially of young women like the co-protagonist of this novel, an up and coming player in the New York literary scene. This lamentation is interesting in […]