This is a novel that I loved when it first came out (when I was 21), and it has only grown in my estimation. The dumber parts feel less dumb (and mostly just more random), and the some of the parts I didn’t understand became sharper and clearer. It’s not too shocking that I decided to reread this book after both my mom and my mother-in-law were at their “Boomer Mom” worst this Christmas. My mom was uncharacteristically better behaved in general, but kids in […]