I found myself haveing a hard time understand where she was in her life. I put the book down for several days only to find my self dreading to pick it back up but still wanting to know what happened to this confused and searching woman. Clearly something was missing inside her and she had to go outside herself to fill that hole up. I found it really sda in many places. At the end I didn't see that she had made any progress personally but that she was even more self absorbed than when the book began.