"According to Frances Taliaferro in the Washington Post the novel does not mock her condition, "the real wonder of An Almost Perfect Moment is that, halfway into it, you've begun to care about Kirshenbaum's characters.They're deeply, even ludicrously flawed, but they're not figures of fun because they all carry the existential burden of loneliness and the fear that "in time it would mutate into something worse than loneliness