emma_hughes_ 's review for:

Wellness by Nathan Hill

4.0

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as a satire on modern, well, everything - this book does a great job. as a marriage story, it does ok. and as a generational saga, it struggles. the first 2-300 pages kept me pretty engaged, but it struggled with pacing towards the end. I loved getting to know Jack & Elizabeth, but I wish we'd spent more time on their present-day struggles and less on their childhood traumas to give the ending more punch. overall though, it was witty and charmingly written, gently poking fun at the lengths we go to to achieve "wellness" and how easy it is to fall for appealing stories about what will bring happiness, whether they're true or not.