I completely understand why this book has such a high rating...it just wasn’t the book for me. Maybe I am too old to appreciate all the dating dilemmas and thoughts. I also didn’t enjoy the short chapters, which I found too brief and staccato to really get engrossed in what was being said. Lastly I didn’t enjoy the second person narration because I felt so disconnected...I wasn’t drawn in enough to feel addressed,
Some of the writing was wonderful. The first poem was fantastic and now and then there were sections that were truly brilliant.. the shortish section at the end was wonderful....most of the time though I felt a bit alienated. The end just seemed to be too miraculous a settling of issues.

Maybe this is a book to pick up now and then and read short sections rather than settle to in one go.