Thanks to NetGalley, the publisher and author for the opportunity to read and review this book.
I thought that the writing in this book was great, very descriptive, loved the addition of graphic drawings since the subject was a cartoonist. But I just didn't like Rich so it was hard to get into this book too much.
Rich is a cartoonist who had a lot of success early on but is now struggling just to make ends meet in a world that is increasingly going away from print media. Every year, he goes to a summer arts conference in a scenic New England town where he teaches cartooning. The same cast of characters teaches at this conference - it is portrayed as a grown-up version of spring break, where everyone can escape from their normal (read horrible) lives.
Rich leaves at home a wife, also struggling to get back to her career, a young daughter and an infant son. At home, he's on the night duty, struggling to attend to a son who never sleeps. Both parents are obviously sleep-deprived and at their wits end so attending to their marriage is not on the top of their list. When Rich reconnects with Amy, the wife of a billionaire who pays no attention to her, the affair they started last summer and continued through a series of affirming texts all year, heats up.
While we all can understand the draw of someone paying attention to us while we slip away from the mind-numbing details of our real life, everyone in this book came across entitled, selfish, whiney, and incapable of making good decisions.
The writing was top-notch but hopefully the author's next book will contain characters we can get behind a bit more!
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