Korelitz is the master of grimy, cringeworthy novels, and this one is especially so.  Judgment.  We are all guilty of it.  It’s easy to look in from the outside and judge what happened on the inside.  But it’s never as easy to be on the inside living in the moment. 

Grace is a therapist who seems to have it all- charmed life, perfect kid, perfect marriage.  She’s heard one too many patients complain that they just couldn’t see the truth in their mates.  Grace doesn’t believe that.  She believes the truth is always there to see, if only the women had been looking.  It was easy for her to judge those blind sighted women.  It’s easy to judge until she finds herself in the same position.

This is an interesting premise.  In general, we all have a bit of Grace in us…we all have those times where we judge a situation or think we could handle the circumstances better.  

But this book is very character driven.  And ultimately, I just didn’t find anything to like about Grace.  She is shallow, oblivious (so very oblivious),  insufferable, and lacking empathy.  I had hoped that as she came to terms with her own devastating circumstances, we would see growth in her character.  But alas, that was not.