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This could be the Great American Novel. Would that it were possible to award more than Five Stars to "Wellness."

Is there an algorithm for how to describe this book? Besides keeping me riveted for almost 500 pages I came away with so much information that my brain aches. But that is far from all. It's an absolutely beautiful love story which also includes everything you need to know about being alive in the first quarter of the 21st century.

You want psychology? Do you wonder about the Placebo Effect? How about Facebook and other social media? Polyamory? Yup. And so much more. Rather than recount the tale of Jack and Elizabeth, both tortured souls due to their parents' behavior, let me sing the praises of Nathan Hill, who with scholarship blended with humor, will cause you to collar people around you to read aloud passages of pure and absolute genius. I learned more about art and photography here than I did in countless museum visits and Art courses. Same about the internet, Bots and wellness fads.

Do not let all this frighten you away from reading one of the most heartfelt and emotionally memorable novels of the century. Thanks and blessings to Knopf and NetGalley who gave me an ARC copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review.