This book excels at capturing feelings. The sensation of summer, the anxiety of early adulthood, and the feeling of a small business on the verge of closing. It does very well at capturing the material, and the characters are sympathetic yet flawed. I also enjoyed the wealth of setting and detail references. My issue is that at the ending (very vague spoiler)

the main character reaches a particular emotional revelation about how things are going to play out, and this revelation just sticks. The buildup is messy but the book ends suddenly with a flash forward in time to when all of the events have played out

So the emotional impact left me a little frustrated, like I was expecting something played out in more detail.