This is another one of those pastiche novels that tells the story of overlapping groups of people in little vignettes. It has cool Rose-For-Emily thing happening with a first person plural narrator. It probably deserves a higher rating, but I think I'm just a little burned out on Hidden Lives of The Upper Middle Class novels. There's always a rape, always the brutal, accidental death of an animal, and always some dead/alcoholic parents. I probably should have saved this for when I was more in the mood for such a book.