Clear-cut scoring chances were harder to come by in the second half, with both sides taking a cagier approach. The Bulgarian pressure built as the half wore on, and a go-ahead goal started to seem ...
She’s cagier than that, preferring a messy, sometimes humiliating, sometimes exhilarating ride-along as its own worthy tale of the pitfalls and pleasures of willful, anonymous neighborliness.
Some publishers, of course, are cagier than others—I’ve been denied early digital copies for plenty of books. But Intermezzo was never available on NetGalley in the U.S. for reviewers other ...