I think the format works, and I really did like that the life trajectories were far from clich?. The various characters and the leftover, restructured, reworked angst from the original scene (don't want to spoil) is laid out in life stories, forming the basic structure of the novel. I also needed to know the overall basic premise - the book's beginning in the center of a party in progress offered me nothing. I later returned to it after reading many reviews from many sources, and seeing nothing else on this site that attracted me, am glad I gave it another try. So after reading Chapter One I promptly let go of this book and made another selection. This novel starts out that way, with a cohort of characters thrown at the reader, and I could barely digest one character's story before the narrative moved on to the next. I have an aversion to books that start out "in medias res", in the middle of things, without any background, full of dialogue without context, and I feel like I am crashing a party, or that I've arrived at a party solo, without a "date" and knowing no one.
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