A review by vjporter
The Pessimists by Bethany Ball

5.0

This is my exact favorite kind of novel: a little dark and dysfunctional, characters unlikable and sometimes downright frustrating and yet I still care about them because there is just enough that's interesting about their psyches. And the writing is just good. The chapter at the beginning of part 2! That just described in the third person collective the ennui of all the people in suburbia! Plus I laughed out loud at several points.