Three and a half stars, and that last half is especially dedicated to the authors were able to craft anxiety in me, as the reader, all the way through this novel.

-into having a stressful, iron-clad grip on its reader as we're confronted with its complete satire. Including, but not limited to: any queer stereotype you can imagine, the ennui of modernity of romance/partnership/marriage, and the AWFUL decisions of our severely...suppressed narrator.

I read the whole thing within two hours as soon as I started. This book is unassuming at first, opening with the love story of an average, privileged couple that seems, well, boring in its conflict. But soon, this book unravels-