Love Invents Us

Not satisfying. Mostly this “novel” reads like a collection of stories, which is okay. And I was engaged until the last story, which has Elizabeth (the messed up central character, who steals and lies and sleeps with her English teacher, probably because her parents do a lousy job with her) receiving a visit from Huddie, the black guy she really has loved all along, while her son–no mention of who the father might be, but he's named after the English teacher who died long before the kid was conceived–who apparently at 8 is obviously gay. Didn't buy this ending.