I hung in for over a hundred pages because of the interesting premise. Due to China's one child law and the Chinese preference for boys, there is a population imbalance. Men are allowed to have one child. Women can have as many as they want--in plural marriages. May Ling has two husbands already and is interviewing a third, a gym owner in his 40s. She loves her first husband, Hann, and has reproduced with him, but although Hann loves May Ling, too, he's not that into her, sexually. His younger brother and May Ling's second husband is on the autism spectrum, but not diagnosed as such because that would preclude him from fathering a child.

I gave up because the book is just too long for me for a pandemic read, and it was taking too long to get somewhere.