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Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett
4.0

Up until and during the technical climax (that amazing backyard party) I would have said Union Atlantic for me is in the running for my best books I read this year.

Great characters.

The denouement after the climax was a little disappointing. I almost think I didn't understand some of it, so that's on me.

Reads out loud well: it's well crafted, down on the sentence by sentence scale.
And I see things when I re-read it. I just read Chapter 5 twice. A hero is introduced, as a minor role, but still a very cool, uncorruptible, realistic hero.

Four stars.