Not a very good book. I really hated how he handled stream of consciousness narrative sections -- they are just awkwardly dropped in and almost always feel forced. Like sudden run on sentences. I also found the dialogue clunky. He inserts ideas awkwardly; characters lecture each other at great length about God's love or something, or a random stranger overhears a conversation between characters and stops to offer them information on how psychoanalytic theory illuminates their topic. It's also annoying when the long lectures are followed up by a lectured straw-man character saying something like "Geez, you're a real deep thinker there Josh." ( )