Barely got through this. I think there's probably an audience that will enjoy this, but it is sadly not me. Like other reviews said, this is honestly too on the nose to be the satire it wants to be, and it’ just wasn’t all that engaging to me. The writing is fine and I think this book had a lot of potential that just didn’t end up landing for me. I’d still give future works by the author a try, and would be interested to see if something more plot-focused would work better for him and this particular style of writing.

DNF - I found the writing a bit hard to follow & perhaps had I tried to read this at another time I might have found it more enjoyable.

A critique and a satire, but too heavy handed to be well done. Funny, but not subtle enough to make a point to the people its criticizing.

*Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for providing this book, with my honest review below*

I enjoyed pieces of this book, especially stories around Molly, Maria’s Pomeranian, and how the ‘Molly Incident’ changed the trajectory, a bit, of the main character. That said, perhaps through the translation, this was incredibly hard to read with run on sentences and what felt like a continuous narration that was rarely reined in. This feels very much like an initial draft of a diary than it does a book, and I can’t recommend it with that in mind.