This is a modern millennial classic. Tenderly and empathetically rendered; Latronico doesn’t make fun, he understands and takes part. It would be a much easier book to write if this were simply satirizing the international ~nomad~ class of Europe’s ~hot new cities~. What it does instead is break apart each of the highly self-consciously curated parts of the increasingly internet-bound lives we lead in the post-2010s. Even our reading of this book is part of the performance act (selected for its Fitzcorraldo Editions translation for an eventual place on the coffee table next to a pile of New Yorkers), and Latronico knows and embraces this. Super timely. I also liked that Anna and Tom were sort of non-characters in this story: emblematic perhaps of the cut-and-paste “unique” but not so unique lifestyle we all curate. This did mean that I didn’t feel attached to them/wasn’t “rooting for them” to propel me through this book, but I understand that that’s the not the point. Forecast: I think this is gonna be really hot over the next year