American Pastoral

This books is so profoundly sad. It is beautiful, it's atrocious. The prose is great. As is the whole portrayal of not just an American household, but I think a very Western household. Divorces and affaires, wine and prestige, achievement and disappointment.

However the whole speculative nature of the story is kind of weird, and was kind of off putting. The main character: Zuckerberg is writing the story of the ‘Swede' (who is the actual main character), and does so mainly based on assumptions he is filling in after eating a meal with him and finding out he passed away shortly after.