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Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin
2.5
reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
Its a book that really really wants to say something about a lot of things - love, desire, sexual politics, feminism, sexual assault, the ethics of infidelity, with some confusing strays into Jewish identity and trauma around the holocaust? It was enjoyable for the first half but the second half dragged and didn’t say anything it didn’t already say. Lacan was rammed down my throat for three hundred pages.
Mostly, it feels like Elkin used psychoanalytic theories to explore desire and justify infidelity, and that just didn’t resonate with me! 
Honestly, would have been more enjoyable as an essay.
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