Nathan Hill writes about love and parenthood, and more importantly trying to navigate those topics in awful modernity, with so much compassion and humor. As a father of a boy about to be two years old, the sequence in which Elizabeth is struggling to get her two year old son to eat, following her to the grocery store for her "unraveling," evoked an internal horror the likes at which Stephen King would blush. The nonlinear approach pays off very well by the end, as well, giving you glimpses into Jack and Elizabeth's lives at different points and from different perspectives makes the conclusion satisfying and meaningful.

Reviewed on Monday, January 15th, 2024, 8:29am.