The narration was the only thing that kept me going. I read in another review someone said “the thrust is very cerebral, rather than visceral”, as obscure as this statement may be, it does summarize the book rather nicely. Complicated can be good, but in the end you hope for closure or at the very least some sort of connection. I did not enjoy the style of writing either, and it was difficult to know which story she was talking about because names were rare throughout the book. I felt no connection to any of the characters. I guess Krauss was trying to come up with a connection between these stories and used a desk to do it. A series of different vignettes all revolving around a desk that really has nothing substantial to do with the meat of the plots. I thought the book sounded very interesting when I started, but the further I got into it, the more I wondered what it was about.
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