Anna Quindlen has written a dark social satire set within New York City, seen through the eyes of restless mother Nora. Nora’s life seems safe and stable, until her husband is involved in an incident with a handyman fighting over a parking space – an incident that turns violent. The reaction to the incident divides the neighbourhood, and Nora’s marriage, exposing issues of race, class, privilege, and parking, all with an underlying comic bite. It’s basically Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap meets that one episode of Seinfeld.
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