Review: Musical chairs for adults
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 15, 2013
The young narrator has left her husband and taken up with Nick, her new true love. Nick takes her to a party at his friends Ed and Rowena's home, where she meets their circle of perfectly interesting friends. Life with Nick and his friends looks a lot more comfortable and appealing than life with her husband, so she divorces him and weds Nick.Variations of this scenario happen all the time in real life, with various outcomes. In the narrator's case, her future was far more unsettled and less perfect than she imagined it would be. As she would learn the hard way, perfect people are not always so perfect, happy, charming, ingenuous, or enlightened. And their perfect relationships can be tenuous, fragile, and short-lived. It's a marvelously well written story about love and human relationships. And sometimes you really do have to be careful what you wish for.