it's about a young woman who feels overshadowed and intimidated by her socialite mother, and famous writer father and brother, and how she tries to break free from that pressure.
i'll admit, it took me a while to get into this book. for the longest time, i just didn't care about her character. although i did laugh early on at her brother's book reading, when someone in the audience asked his father who his literary influences were, and he replied, "lady, i named my Raskolnikov. you do the math." LOL
after a while, though, once she met Daniel Sullivan, that the writing seemed to pick up, and it was easier to get the feel of the book. until that point, she seemed stuck in some existential malaise, and so was the writer. but once she met him, everything seemed to pick up, and you can sense the tension in her as she is torn between the life she really wants and the life her family expects her to have.
all in all, not a bad book, though my life would have been just as rich having not read it.
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