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A woman deals with her eccentric musician brother‘s bad decisions. Maybe I read this at a bad time but I just could not feel anything towards Nik but antipathy. Nothing that bad happened to him. Denise deserved better than orienting her life around a man who never gave her any consideration.

I have heard good things about Dana Spiotta. The writing was good but it did not resonate. I will try one of her other ones instead one day.

This is between a so so and a pan. So so only bc I can appreciate moments of readability in the text but the story telling did nothing for me. Many times I just thought, what's the point? I would have dumped it but it's for book group. Hmmm. Maybe this should be a pan.🙄