Recently I’ve been listening, on my desultory drives back and forth over the harbor bridge to take my son to Montessori, to a novel called Point of No Return, which sounds like it should be a spy thriller, but which is instead a quiet domestic drama about white male class anxiety in New England in the 1940s by John P. Marquand. Marquand is remembered - …
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