Okayyy...

Disclaimer: I read the book to tick off the last prompt for a reading challenge- Read a Pulitzer-winning book.

Confession: I'm super wary of award-winning books. Period.

After shortlisting three short books for the prompt, I decided to go with this one. Don't ask why. It just felt better somehow. Trying to overcome my wariness, I read the detailed summary of the book on Wiki. Yes, I pretty much knew what would happen in each story even before I read the first page. No, that's not how I ever read books.

I admit the summary helped me a lot. I didn't have to wonder what the whole point of a story was or what I was supposed to understand from it. Go with the flow works rather well here. As much as I sort of felt bad for Olive (even Chris and Henry), I couldn't really feel anything else.

The distanced, discontinued, and vague sort-of narration doesn't seem to help me at all. I felt the same with My Name is Lucy Barton. Only, here I felt it had a better ending, which still seemed to end... just like that.

Let me conclude this (non) review by saying that I'm glad I tried, but that's about it. My wariness stands justified.

Fans of the author/ book, please excuse the review. I'm happy you love it. It's not for me. Let's respect that.

*****

P.S: Giving it 3 stars because I did understand some of the stories (thanks to Wiki again).