Wellness
Nathan Hill · 2023
A married couple in Chicago examine how they constructed their marriage on false premises. Hill's big novel of contemporary American life and the wellness-industrial complex is the inheritor of the social novel tradition, more warmly humanist than punishing.
The case against
Hill researches like a journalist and cuts like a hoarder: essays on placebo science, Facebook's algorithm, polyamory, and Chicago gentrification arrive in full, each parked on top of the marriage you came to read about. Characters pause for pages at a time so the author can present findings. Somewhere inside these six hundred pages is a lean and devastating four hundred.
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