The Correspondent relies on unique construction (letters) and name-dropping (of literary works) to make it feel more high-brow than it was. The writing wasn’t terrible, but it definitely wasn’t great. The entire exchange with the customer service representative, as well as the Native American DNA results, was laughably unrealistic, and the love triangle was trite. I’m also over the unnecessary political references in modern books. Would have returned this one if Audible had let me, but didn’t feel like haggling with customer service.