i wasn’t that charmed by this one! undeniably as the front blurb of my copy notes, zambra is a compelling storyteller “at the sentence level.”. but the larger piece? i’m not so sold on it. there are a lot of little gems in here but i was put off by the way that the story meandered. also with this, my 4th book of zambra’s, i’m getting tired of the “woe is me” male writer protagonists lol