I found this book very clever but it was almost as though it was deliberately trying to be clever for effect, and not because that was the story. Having said that I enjoyed it and thought that the central story was a good one. I did not guess the ending and I learnt a lot about America during the period around 1909 when the book is set. I knew almost nothing about Freud save for his famous theories on the Oedipus Complex and so I enjoyed expanding that knowledge. I thought this read was thoughtful and clever but it didn't blow me away.