Dolly Alderton's “Ghosts”: Everything is approaching the moment when the man declares his “ghosting”

The strange mating behavior of sexually mature city dwellers has been enriched by one facet for several years: ghosting.

The phenomenon is called ghosting because the guilty disappear like ghosts or the abandoned are haunted by ghosts.

In this case, the spirits are the ones who stopped calling.

There are various possible explanations for the question of why this is so.

Feminism says: Men are overwhelmed by

and their own feelings. The dating apps prove: An infinity pool of potential partners means that no one wants to commit anymore. Biology claims: women over thirty are looking in panic for possible fulfillments of their desire for children and lose all self-respect in the process. In short: Everything in this novel comes close to the moment when the reappeared Max declares his disappearance. And leaves the readers - and readers? - all the more perplexed back.