PositiveBookforumSvelte ... Slim, elegant ... Sleek ... Anna and Tom are not fully drawn people, and the little sense we have of them is not admirable or interesting. But they aren’t supposed to be likable. Anna and Tom are Latronico’s chosen tool for exploring a state of being. They force us to grapple with our own relationship with our origins, our loyalties, our apathies—and that is what he intended.