Rating

★★★★★

Category

literature

Read

2016-05-16

Pages

330

Book club book. Really enjoyed it. Interesting characters and style, good plot (that kept me guessing) and ending, unconventional pacing, funny, sad.

“I just wanted to leave L.A. in a snit, lick my considerably wounded ego, and when I determined that everyone felt sufficiently sorry for me, unfurl my cape and swoop in to launch my second act and show those bastards who the true bitch goddess of architecture really is.”

“There were ebony beaches dusted with snow, and sometimes there was a lone emperor penguin, giant, with orange cheeks, standing on an iceberg, and you had no idea how he got there, or how he was going to get off, or if he even wanted to get off.”