I especially liked that it started with the Tristan perspective, leading us to believe that the events happening to him are important.
The two women viewpoints and storylines are what's important (not just a trivial infidelity affair centered around a man), mother and daughter, later revealing that Tristan is just an innocent bystander, really quite unimportant to the main drama.
Elegantly written.
I liked the symmetries: that the mother and daughter independently, at the same time, started attempts to reach out to each other, that they in their youth both had/has relationships with toxic men.
I'm not sure that the third symmetry, that they both had sex with each others partners, was really necessary.
There's humour in that also the second male character (Stephán) is totally oblivious, as well as really just a superfluous annoyance.
So true - men are very seldom as important as they believe themselves and they often have no clue what's really going on... I guess the ending might be a glimpse of hope of future reconciliation, although the daughter ruined her mother's relationship, as intended, and the mother did the same thing to her daughter - maybe they can eventually start fresh again after this, which I like think was the daughter's ultimate goal when she initially approached her mother's husband.
Both men were obstacles to this reconciliation.
The two women viewpoints and storylines are what's important (not just a trivial infidelity affair centered around a man), mother and daughter, later revealing that Tristan is just an innocent bystander, really quite unimportant to the main drama.
Elegantly written.
I liked the symmetries: that the mother and daughter independently, at the same time, started attempts to reach out to each other, that they in their youth both had/has relationships with toxic men.
I'm not sure that the third symmetry, that they both had sex with each others partners, was really necessary.
There's humour in that also the second male character (Stephán) is totally oblivious, as well as really just a superfluous annoyance.
So true - men are very seldom as important as they believe themselves and they often have no clue what's really going on... I guess the ending might be a glimpse of hope of future reconciliation, although the daughter ruined her mother's relationship, as intended, and the mother did the same thing to her daughter - maybe they can eventually start fresh again after this, which I like think was the daughter's ultimate goal when she initially approached her mother's husband.
Both men were obstacles to this reconciliation.