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Each sentence felt cut with a razor wit, never too much or too little. I laughed or even cackled just about every other page. The novel is powerful, revelatory, and I read it in two days, unwilling to do other things. It made me feel selfish in the way I want to feel about a book when I'm reading.

The novel is set during the two times this couple has rented a house for a vacation and invited family, and what they learn about themselves, each other and their families in the process, beginning after the first COVID year and moving in time a few years later. But the real subject to me seemed to be the emptiness one feels after trading community for status quo. Keru, the main character, is a successful Chinese American executive at her company, her husband is a white tenured research professor, and she is reviewing the cost of the choices she made, her parents made, her husband, his parents, his brother--and none of it feels like it is enough, to her. She wants more and she wonders what that would even mean. Also? Lots of good dog comedy, it should be said.