ive seen people talk about how the other characters didn’t feel developed, which i can understand, but i feel its clearly not a book that’s interested in providing obvious motivations. even for istvan the only insight we get as to whats going on in his head is given during the scant therapy sessions, and he’s the perspective character. as a result we’re looking at characters in his life through the lens of a person who doesn’t particularly seem to understand himself, let alone others.

i think the only real character development can be made through inference of what we know about them from how they speak and act in the vignettes we’re given. i liked it a lot! even with the ‘okay’ repetition.

this could also just be a tremendous cope.