Two More Things on The Wonder Spot by Melissa Bank
One is that the book has almost identical elements to All This Heavenly Glory by Elizabeth Crane. Both followed a female protagonist from girlhood to adulthood and centered on family, friends, boyfriends and jobs. Both books had the protagonist in a decent job with a younger boyfriend at the end.
What was unique about The Wonder Spot, though, was that Bank did not have a page or pages for acknowledgements. I usually enjoy reading these, because they often name the author’s teachers and members of their writing group. They can be straightforward, long and self-indulgent (the most painful I have read was in The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger), and funny. But it is singular not to have one, so I found this lack in The Wonder Spot to be curious. I’m choosing to interpret it as modest and self-effacing, in line with Bank’s writing style.