Set during a doom-fated vacation to the Oregon coast, The Disappointment follows a couple trying to hold close to one another while a bent reality—warped by personal losses and an ever-increasing drift toward the surreal—threatens to unravel them.
At times very funny and at others very perceptive; it is also sly, withholding, and a bit disjunctive ... Florence, Oregon, the setting of The Disappointment, is stock, artificial, and wrong ... Broker’s book suggests one thing and does another. It is not the sexy, somewhat menacing vacation novel it promises to be ... The Disappointment left me, as a reader, hoping for a little more.
A beautiful portrait of a long-term relationship and the hazards that come from assuming that understanding improves over time ... A masterful understanding of human nature distinguishes this sexy debut.
