This book reminded me closely of Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon squad. For one, it’s about a familiar figure rendered on the page in the guise of a set of literary tropes. Two, it plays around with reader expectations on plot and form. Three, I was repeatedly told how great it was. Four, I didn’t think it was, actually. Five, I felt fooled by reviews. I was reminded in an odd way of Flaubert’s Dictionary of Accepted Ideas here; this was not because […]