As the curtain closes on the Calloways' fraught love story, faithful readers will feel sad but satisfied. The reliable pleasures of McInerney's writing make even this darkest chapter a fun read

Kirkus

Since Brightness Falls, we have followed the Calloways in two other novels set at crisis points in their marriage, but this one has an emotional depth that shows McInerney at his best

Spectator

The tetralogy that began with 1992's acclaimed Brightness Falls comes to a close with this volume, in which sixty-somethings Russell and Corrinne Calloway attend parties in early 2020 as the global pandemic encroaches. . . . McInerney's always-sharp insights on social strata and human nature guarantee that in the midst of sadness we are also entertained

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