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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm almost done.  I've kept reading because she is a very good writer, but the whole generational wealth thing, with the very odd and difficult to relate to cultural aspects are really privileged.  It feels like she should have just kept this as a diary.[/quote]

As good of a writer as she is, I had a hard time sympathisizing. She's privileged. 
I feel sorry for the kids as not only did he up and leave, he didn't want them. [/quote]

I think the point of the book is that she is reflecting on was it all a lie? She's trying to grapple with the fact that he was a loving and engaged husband and father then, seemingly out of nowhere, said he didn't want any of that. Was it his plan all along? If not, what changed his mind? or what went wrong? The privilege part comes in because, seemingly, nothing was wrong. They didn't have money or employment problems. Everyone was healthy and well-adjusted. So, besides a massive mid-left crisis, what inspires someone to blow it all up? And in such an a-holey way.

The other interesting part is how people reacted to her during and after the divorce. [/quote]

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