The Mutual Friend - Carter Bays
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Publication Date: June 7, 2022
Alice has been saying she is going to go to medical school for years. At twenty eight, it is time she buckled down and studied for her MCATs. But, there is that dating app, her roommate’s foibles, her brother and sister-in-law’s life, possible love interests, not to mention all those social media apps clamoring for her attention. And so it goes……
This book reminds me of some films I’ve seen with loose connections between and among people and how they intersect. There is a wide cast of characters here, some who appear fleetingly, disappear, and then pop up again later. Some move back and forth in time as we learn their stories.
Bays satirically presents an acutely jaundiced, but accurate view of our always connected culture. Some of it is brilliant, some of it absurd. The writing is sharp, but the length of some segments can interfere with that.
The book is refreshing, fun, pertinent, but, for me, a bit too long.
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