Beautiful, funny writing. Incisive, even if this is a familiar plot – picking up after boy meets girl, zooming into the marriage in the time of children. This time, the story begins with a false start and a heart breaking choice, and for these deeply introspective parents that decision recurs with intimidating frequency. Not that they have to decide to have an abortion again and again – but they are forced to consider what it means that they had an abortion again and again, even […]

This is a strange book that was more interesting and intricate than I realized until near the end. The book itself is a rather intimate first person narration of a father, in the capacity of being a father. The narration feels like it’s pretty close if not directly about Peter Ho Davies, and certainly gives that impression. The novel is about a father who has a son, and in addition to this son, he’s still giving a lot of thought and feeling to an abortion […]