Joumana Khatib
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
The people who like to make fun of book clubs.
A dad who thinks he doesn't like fiction.
It's a very specific portrait of the kind of laissez-faire parenting, which, you know, I remember when his mother finds out that the woman that he's dating, the thing that she's horrified by is not the age gap, but that she doesn't think that the woman is attractive enough for her son.
It's a very, very precise.
That's exactly it.
And like, that's also kind of what makes this book so great.
Like if a book could have a smell, this book smells like a 1989 Gristiti's on Columbus Avenue.
Both of you understand what I mean.
Okay, so I'm not married.
The two of you are.
This was cheaper than premarital counseling.
This prepared me for almost any kind of situation in extremis.
It also made me not want to leave my apartment.
But I do appreciate that this couple was so, do we want to say optimistic, that Morris couldn't swim.