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Jen Nilsson has it all, a great condo in California, a fast-track job in a Silicon Valley start-up, and a seemingly limitless future. Life is good and bound to get better. Then her sister Katie, ten years younger, and just out of college, calls and asks if she can move in with her big sister. Katie can no longer stand living with their parents.
Are there Jesuits?
Not really. There is one character who decided the Jesuits were not for him.
Too bad. Take it from this lifelong Silicon Valleyite: the Jebbies at Santa Clara U. have the best stocked bar in the Valley.
Jebbies in the Valley just got to drink free.
Thanks for the review, @seawriter. Approximately what year does the story take place? I’m trying to make the age arithmetic work out–maybe 2005 or so? How did you hear about this book and come to review it? It seems a bit of a departure from your usual review lineup.
I’d say it is contemporary – probably the 2014-2019 because there is no Covid. I do know my middle son (born 1986) is really a Gen-Xer in most ways and refuses to be associated with Millenials while my youngest nephew (born 1995) is a stereotypical Millenial, I can kind of see them as male versions of Jen and Katie. (That snapped into focus as I was searching for an example.)
It isn’t that much of a departure if you look over the last ten years of my reviews. I try to review at least one non-SF fiction book each month. Often they are mysteries, but Ignatius and various local Texas publishing houses (basically those in the Texas A&M Press Consortium) make up most of those. (I consider most fiction that comes out of New York City publishers to be hot messes.)
It is this year largely because Covid has disrupted the book industry. (Don’t ask about my latest royalty statement. It was a disaster.) This year a lot of my review book requests are going unanswered and I have had difficulty getting review books due to Covid. (I convinced the publisher to send me an electronic copy.)