When I picked this up on the bookshop the premise looked very interesting, unfortunately my bookshop is a bit of a Faraday cage so it's not possible to check online reviews as you shop. Overall I found this book perfectly fine, definitely not as bad as some reviewers have said,but it is quite slow and doesn't have a substantial plot. The writing itself though was nice, and very easy to read, and whilst none of the characters were particularly loveable I didn't hate them all either. This is a meh book, a perfectly pleasant way to kill time but in a month I won't remember much of the plot at all. I'm willing to read some of T. C. Boyle other work since based on reviews this looks like a bit of an outlier