This was an interesting book. I didn't like it at first, but then it got interesting and better as it went along. It's a good commentary on love and commitment, as the world sees it and how it should be; love as emotion versus love as commitment.
Claudia and Jeremy are a young married couple who are seeking their dreams in art and film in LA. Jeremy's past girlfriend, Aoki comes back into the picture and Jeremy has a choice to make. At first, I thought this was your typical run of the mill story of temptation. The kind that makes you want the affair to happen. The bad kind. But the book has more layers than that. It's not just a story of "do what feels right and good". It's about the definition of love and what it means to make sacrifices for someone else. It's about how people react when life doesn't go the way you foresaw it.
Best quote of the book was on page 308:
"Everyone pretends that their lives exist in a vacuum, she thought, but the truth is that our individual lives exist in an intimate relationship to the rest of the world. Our actions have consequences in place we are too willfully blind to imagine. Everyone was interconnected after all and only now was the world waking up to that fact and realizing that this collectively self centered state of perpetual adolescence - the gimme gimme era- might actually be ethically flawed."
I didn't enjoy the ending though. usually, I think books with question marks are great. This one, felt rushed and almost like the author just didn't have a good ending so she left it off. But overall, this is a good book.
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