From the back cover:

In the predawn hours, a woman's marriage crumbles with a single confession. Across town, an immigrant family struggles to get by in the land of opportunity. Three thousand miles away, a soldier wakes in hospital with the vague feeling that he's done something awful. In Laura McBride's breathtaking debut novel, these disparate lives are brought together by one split-second choice. Faced with seemingly insurmountable loss, each person must decide whether to give in to despair, or find the courage and resilience to rise.

I enjoyed this book, at first I was a little put off because I thought it was going to be more out and out comedy. Once I shifted my expectations to being a memoir that happens to be funny in places. I appreciated learning things about Iran and the Revolution that I didn't know before.

Left at Sidcup Station on the bookshelf