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Book Review of The Dinner

The Dinner
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Four unpleasant individuals sit down to a dinner. One casts silent, jealous judgment on his brother. The brother upholds a concerned and sympathetic façade. Meanwhile, the women plot. Teens, murder, YouTube, conflagration of a body. The dinner progresses. The diners appear progressively less stable. Unnamed and unexplained illnesses emerge. My bafflement at the life skills of these four adults and their ability to successfully raise children grows. Dinner ends. I'm left with both an empty stomach and the bill. What I read was good, solid writing; but I'm unsure what it was.