I was often impatient with this book. Felt like author was spinning story as sprawling as the LA setting, and found myself skimming pages, like when eyes drift over passing landscape on a long road trip, waiting for destination to arrive. I recognized many accurate descriptions of So. California life: White Privilege, materialism, racism, isolation, socio-economic divides, need to "keep up appearances." A good read; I liked but didn't love it.
Read this for book club, probably never would have chosen it for myself. Listened to it on audio while traveling, worked well while driving, not so well while flying. There were parts that I enjoyed, but overall it left me cold. Disappointing ending.