The narrator was so insufferable with only the slightest glimmer of redemption at the end, but even that wasn’t enough. The bulk of the novel follows a mother being violently homophobic to her daughter and her daughter’s girlfriend. She berates the two women and loathes their very existence. She only kind of begins to “get it” when she sees the discrimination and violence her daughter faces firsthand, but even then, she can’t even bring herself to say the word “gay.” Felt bad that she spent her entire life turning a blind eye to anything out of the ordinary, but at the same time, she didn’t seem very motivated to change that about herself. Even when faced with her daughter’s girlfriend moving in, she begs her to break up with her and find a husband. Just delusional. The girlfriend is better than me because if I had to live with my partner’s homophobic mom and get berated daily, I would leave in an instant. Also the narrator is really the only fully fledged character in the book, we only learn surface level details about her daughter, her partner, and Jen, and even then those details are more about occupation than personality. Main takeaway is that Green doesn’t deserve Lane and the mom needs to get a grip.