This novel is successful in a few different ways: it’s funny, it’s real about emotions, it’s complex in the ways in which people talk to themselves, maybe especially in comparison to the ways in which we talk to others, but I think it’s most successful by acknowledging we inhabit a much different world from say, the 1990s (in which parts of this novel do take place) but that those differences create facets and changes, but don’t fundamentally change the nature of our world and how […]