I have such complicated opinions on this book. The writing is wonderful - Ozeki is very skilled at writing beautifully immersive prose - and the characters felt real, if not a little flat. There were instances where things were mentioned and seemed meaningful but were never brought up again, or were shown to be significantly less important than I thought they were going to be. I suppose that was intentional. I think this book has an audience and I exist on the very edge of it, not quite inside but not quite excluded either. It’s complicated.