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Excellent Story and Narration

Revisado: 08-23-23

This beautifully written and carefully constructed novel asks what is truth; to whom, including ourselves and even dead people, are we required to speak it; and what happens when we don’t take these questions seriously? 

The questions are considered dramatically through the effects on the protagonist Gregory’s relationships not of non-disclosure, so much, although there’s plenty of that, but of not taking the question of disclosure seriously until it’s possibly too late.  

Do not be put off by my philosophical analysis of the book: there is plenty here to keep fan of romantic or family drama engaged.

I have a feeling that the author intended Gregory's relationships with his wife Liv and Mira, the woman who visits his therapy office every Wednesday at one, to be central to what the book's narrative.

But I found Gregory's sister, Maggie, and daughter, Carrie, more sensitively drawn and the relationships with them more nuanced and illustrative of the book's themes.  
The reader of the Audible production brings warmth and empathy to Gregory’s inner life and tormented longing for connection.  This could be a beach read, but it is also more than that.  

I look forward to seeing the movie!

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