A review by markeefe
Subtraction by Mary Robison

3.5

I loved the first 2/3 of this novel, with Robison's voice-y portrayal of dumb smart people falling in and out of each other's beds and lives throughout a sticky season in Houston. But I didn't love the latter 1/3, and I really wasn't crazy about the ending. But, man, Robison's voice! She's such a lyrical writer, but her sentences also feel off-the-cuff in a perfect way, as if she just jots down these perfect lines and then hurries on to the next.