I had a 10 hour drive yesterday, so I launched into this audiobook that a friend recommended — and I was absolutely enraptured. It’s so great.
First, very important, it’s funny. Funny books are weirdly rare! But second, it’s that magical combination of being very easy to read, like, feels like guilty pleasure kind of vibe, but it’s also so smart. Like, philosophical smart. Makes you think about the meaning of life and how things work, but in a fun way.
It starts with an interesting premise — what if your attic magically produced a husband for you, someone you don’t know but who is totally integrated into your world, like you’d had selective amnesia, but also, and this is key, you could also exchange him for a new one by sending him back up into that same attic — and takes it in what seems like every possible direction (not the really awful ones). With each new twist I went “Oh! Of course! I hadn’t even thought of that but right, yeah, what about that??” And then best of all, you have this recurring realization that what seem like novel insights or dilemmas based on this impossible premise turn out, upon reflection, to actually be a part of life and relationships in normal reality, just magnified or taken to an extreme. It’s so cool. I was eager but also nervous to see how she’d pull off the ending, and I think she absolutely nailed it.
I want everyone I know to read this book so I can talk to them about it!
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