Vladimir

 This is an easy 4 but could have been 5. I absolutely love flawed characters and this book does a terrific job of highlighting it. The writing is evocative and fluid although it feels extremely rushed towards the end, where the pace and tone suddenly shifts as if the author had a pressing deadline and ran out of ideas. Needless to say, the first 80% of the book is very good and gives us a lot to think about in the most #MeToo era, where the narrative is usually one-sided. This book also reminds me of Mary Gaitskill's book “This is Pleasure”. I look forward to Ms Jonas future works.