This Ken Kalfus novel about Sept. 11, 2001, and its effects on a couple going through a divorce has a patchwork feel. One scene near the end about a suicide bomb is completely out of sync tonally with the rest of the book. Blurbs promising a "savagely funny" and "hilarious" work lied (again). There is no doubt some good stuff here, but the divorce proceedings become tedious and the fanciful ending feels like cheating.
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