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Listened to on audiobook. I was excited to read this after hearing about it on the New York Times Book Review podcast. There were some good moments about youth, memory, identity, and grief. However, it felt bogged down by some of the particulars (namely, the repeated music references that initially added texture and characterization, but that by the end felt repetitive and distracting from the main narrative.) The narrative perspective also felt uneven: the author is looking back at his college years, but the distance between the narrator reflecting and his college-age self seemed to fluctuate. This may have been part of the point, but it left me wondering what the author was making of this particular time of his life and how that tied to broader questions the book was considering.