Vendela Vida's And Now You Can Go
It seemed like synchronicity--Jenny mentioned her, and then she turned up on Gawker's list of most annoying literary power couples (I guess she's married to Dave Eggers, whose writing is annoying enough for both of them [which is also how I feel about another member of the list, Jonathan Safran Foer]). Anyway, this book actually wasn't annoying at all, which isn't to say I was in love with it or anything. Let's say it was . . . pretty good. It's about a young girl grad student who gets held up at gunpoint, and she's sort of traumatized and deals with it with the help of various young men who love her or something, and then she and her mom go on a medical mission to the Philippines. It's nothing earth-shattering or revelatory (for me, or for the characters), but it was ok. B.
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