Perfection

Review

I had the most mixed of feelings reading this book. It read like a summary rather than a novel, which I respected but also hated, but it nailed the tension of a ‘specific’ life that is alarmingly generic.

Their friendships were surprisingly easy, but there was also something precarious and brittle about them. Anna and Tom had been welcomed with an almost suspicious level of interest and openness, proof of a loneliness everyone was trying to exorcize. It would not have occurred to them to call on those friends in times of need. There were certain topics they never talked about, like money. There was the odd sudden, unprovoked defection, but never any fully fledged rifts—they weren't close enough to warrant actually hurting each other.