2019: This was a tricky book, but I was overall disappointed compared to how much I enjoyed A Visit from the Goon Squad. I almost wish Eddie HAD just died so I could keep learning about Anna’s kickass job as the first female diver. I even loved her torrid affair with Dexter, until all the daddy drama got in the way. The ending was weak and disappointing and totally avoidable. Would have loved to see her continue to live on her own in New York and have a successful career, but apparently women didn’t do that in the 1930s, not even in fiction.