Book 59 of 2016. Modern Lovers, by Emma Straub.
Modern Lovers is set in Ditmas Park, a neighbourhood in Brooklyn that I'm often in. It's fun to read about streets you know and places you go, even if they're the slightly-off-from-real-life versions. (For instance, there's a neighbourhood blog in the book, called "The Q at Ditmas." In real life there's a blog called "The Q at Parkside" that covers a neighbouhood slightly north, and one called "Ditmas Park Corner" for the area in question. Whatever). It's about two families with teenage kids living on the same block; 3 of the 4 parents went to college together and their adult lives are all still wrapped up together. I didn't really like Staub's previous novel, The Vacationers so I was suprised by how into this one I was. It was fluff, but kind of sweet and smart fluff. I read the whole thing in one day, on Christmas, which included a lot of lovely time drinking tea on my mother-in-law's couch.











