Just read the excerpt of the novel on Amazon, decide whether or not you want to buy and read it (I don't; but it is fictional, it's a novel), then for God's sake can we all let this book have or not have its day and move on to seemingly better ones that should be more highly anticipated, like Rivka Galchen's Atmospheric Disturbances? I refer to this one because here's an example, based on what appeared in the New Yorker by Galchen a month or so ago, of a writer who can actually write, draw in readers, and entertain without gimmicks like run-on sentences, stand-alone fragments, and the underhiss of gossip transmuted into fiction.