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Meeting New People

I picked this up based on Lavery’s name and it was... fine. The main character, a 60 year old woman who maybe overthinks things, has been broken up with by her best friend. Now she needs a new one, but how does someone go about that, at her age and with her level of specificity about how she feels about life and other things? It’s a lot of her thinking about people (and food) and how she feels about them and herself. It’s well written but not much happens in it. I felt like I was inside the head of someone who I didn’t quite agree with or enjoy her thoughts. And there’s a “turning point” in the book that didn’t ring true to me.