Life changes, people change. A middle aged construction worker and his fitness and image obsessed wife go through a lot of changes..ultimately not for me.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance copy of this book.
This was odd from start to finish. I am not totally sure what the author was trying to accomplish. I think he wanted to convey a confused married man who was unsure of his marriage, his sexuality and his importance in the world. However, there did not seem to be a genuine conclusion to the problem.
His relationship with Gluten was at times fun and interesting and at other times too odd and too out there for me.
This is a modern novel in all of its presentation. It is dealing with themes that were not out there 20 years ago. It has a social media role that could not have been in books 10 years ago. And, it stomped all over generally accepted writing techniques.
I am in the middle with this book, I did not hate it but I also did not love it. Something kept me reading, but many moments had me wondering WTH I was reading.
I think some will like this book, while others may not even finish it.
I will sit on the fence with it and let others be the top contributors to value of this book.

Delighted to include this title in the August edition of Novel Encounters, my column highlighting the month’s most anticipated fiction for the Books section of Zoomer, Canada’s national lifestyle and culture magazine. (see column and mini-review at link)