I found this pretty uninspiring and got bored well before the end. There’s nothing really “wrong” with it, except that it’s too long and nothing much happens. It’s a banal coming-of-age tale of Miles who snoops on his mother as he tries to work out just what is going on in his family as it falls apart at the seams. But I didn’t much care for Miles, or indeed any of the other characters so wasn’t invested in what happened to them. None of them are very convincing, and nor is Miles’ voice as the narrator, veering between too naïve and too knowing. Mona Simpson can do better than this.