I’ve never read anything quite like this book. So good I missed my train stop because I couldn’t put it down. It’s engrossing, heart-wrenching, infuriating, and simply ingenious. One of the reviews on the back of my edition calls it “a gleefully salacious story”—they’re right, but don’t underestimate how much this novel will twist your gut. It takes a long hard look at what it takes to be a woman who “has it all,” and shows you the impossibility and self-destroying fate of such a quest.