pedestrienne

The characters here are lot more emotionally honest than many in modern literature.

I stayed up late to finish this. I feel like this is the sort of book I want when I want a "good book". It's satisfying without being slow, it doesn't matter if I'm into what the characters are into (for instance, I am not a theater person but I enjoyed that this was set in the theater world because the joy it gave to the characters informed my reading of it). It's got flawed, real, characters but also a kind of magical quality. More Dodie Smith for me, I say.