Contrapposto by Dave Eggers REVIEW

It's a very tender and very quiet novel. Even in its loudest or harshest aspects, even when it deals with family abuse, when it deals with meaningless death or addiction, it does so in a rather subdued way that treats the material of Cricket's life, that's the protagonist's name, in a way that is detached, but is not unsympathetic.

The main comparison I would offer is with The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides. , I thought there were strong echoes between the two and that's a lot it's a novel I love I often recommend to people.