Read over July 4th weekend but finally got this from OpenLibrary yay! I wrote a review when this was still fresh but sadly it is lost but I will try to lazily summarize regardless:
I appreciate what the book is going for (extrapolating on the absurdity of post-everything American society, an Internet-poisoned satire of the suburban domestic novel). Catholicism, mysterious predatory billionaire, online terrorists, midlife crises--you name it, it has it. Interesting especially as there were rumors its inexplicably successful marketing campaign was astroturfed/Thielbux-funded; there were a handful of Dimes references lol.
Anywho, my first criticism echoes what many others had to say: I really did enjoy the first half, but the billionaire plotline verges on ridiculous and is a massive and abrupt tonal shift from the exploration of family dynamics that the first half establishes. Honestly, tonally, the entire novel was an absolute (but very well-written) mess. It swings rapidly from psychologically-exploratory domestic novel to mystery to flirting with spiritual reckoning (more on this in a sec). The gnat gimmick was cool but its existence and resolution served no thematic purpose (correct me if I'm wrong).
