Ms Makkai makes clear how her protagonist's life has been shaped by men's nasty behaviour.

Makkai 女士清楚地表明了她的主人公的生活是如何被男人的下流行为所塑造的。

This novel lacks the emotional punch of Ms Makkai's previous book, " The Great Believers" (published in 2018), which charted the history of the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s.

这本小说缺乏麦凯女士上一本书《伟大的信徒》（2018 年出版）的情感冲击力，该书描绘了 1980 年代艾滋病流行的历史。