Rachman's first book was genius and I never wanted it to end. Can't say the same for this one. I did enjoy this book but it was a little too long and ended up depressing me. Tooly is a small book shop owner who is looking back on her odd childhood. An email from an old boyfriend takes her back into the orbit of several people from her past. Until age 10 or so, she lived with her father, moving around the world while he completed IT work at US embassies. Around age 10, her mother showed up and gave her an alternative that seemed attractive. She went with her mother and led a very bohemian life with her main care giver, a man named Humphrey, who surrounded by an ever changing group led by the charismatic Venn. Tooly feels like Venn is the only person who ever really cared for her, in the way of an older sibling or father figure. As an adult, she seeks him out and discovers nothing more than a sociopath con man. So often things are not what they seem but this is the depressing part...although, I admit, seemingly only for me. Tooly is past is all and perhaps glad to know the truth.
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