The description had me hooked. Fortunately I felt the story met me expectations. Amazing character development. This would be a fantastic book club book.

Thank you, NetGalley and Scribner, for providing an Advanced Reader Copy for an honest review. Here is the review that I published as a part of a 2024 Roundup for Michigan Quarterly Review:

The premise of this novel is unexpected, brilliant, and moving. In a gig economy world not far from our own, strangers are rented to act as a sibling, a spouse, or a friend, then reviewed and rated. The novel follows a five-starred rated man-for-hire, as he navigates real emotional bonds and how they are entangled with his own history and abandonment, when his role as a long-term stand-in father is threatened. I love Tang’s command of the sentences, her characters, and beautiful voice, to be out in the world soon.