Uninteresting story. I kept waiting for something important to happen, but it never did. The protagonist merely recounts each day at an unnecessary level of detail, with no real plot line, no twists or turns, no revelatory surprises. At the end, my thought was, “So what?” At least it was relatively short book.

I am an Anne Tyler fan so I enjoy everything she writes. This book is like others in that there is humor and a study of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

Written at an 8 th grade level Could have been shorten for an essay in the New Yorker