Someone recommended this book to me by bringing it to a party and saying "If the party slows down, I want to continue this book. I almost didn't come so I could continue reading." That is the kind of thing that makes you request that book right away.
At first, I wanted to compare this to Gone Girl...the narrator is a creepy professor who is on an unwanted sabbatical for some act that we aren't sure about. He has moved to San Francisco to work on a project and wait out the decision from the University about his job status. He rents an office in an old building and ends up next to a psychiatrist. One patient does not like the "noise machine" so our narrator overhears her sessions. Let's just say he quickly becomes obsessed with her sessions. Her story is compelling. She is adopted and wanting to find her origins. The story moves in interesting directions. We really only have a few characters but they are all compelling. In the end, I liked the characters (something I can't say about those in Gone Girl) and the writing of this book is quite different. Still, you really don't know how it is going to end. But the journey is more philosophical. What do we know about ourselves and our origins? What do you want to know? Is knowing better than not knowing?
Very interesting book.
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