The best book from an underrated rater who has played with narrative form for decades, B: A Novel features dozens of quite funny and also moving set-ups that deconstruct themselves. The part about the protagonist-writer's reading is priceless.

This story of the breakup of the marriage of two psychotherapists is told alternately from the husband's and the wife's perspective, with glimpses also of their daughter's experiencing of events and a distanced interpretation of how the same events might be interpreted in a screenplay. In the end, although one learns much about what the characters think and remember, one doesn't really know in full what actually happened. Not unlike real life.

I thought this was going to be funny, like the author's son's movies. But it's not. He can be amusing occasionally, but there are long stretches of self-congratulatory tedium.