This novel is also of a type. I don’t know if you’ve read Jenny Offil’s Dept of Speculation or Shirley Barrett’s The Bus on Thursday, but both deal with the collapse of both long-term relationships, but also the collapse of long-term relationships in the swift succession of a partner leaving. In Offil’s, it’s for an affair with a much younger woman, which leads the narrator to focus her energies going piece by piece through the relationship in pained and sometimes funny ways. I didn’t happen to like […]