Stories of marriages and affairs and partnerships all set in the framework of engagement rings, complete with anecdotes and historical bits about diamond monolith DeBeers and the ad agency and write that created the iconic motto “A Diamond Is Forever.” I found the stories themselves engrossing and think Sullivan has a good ear for different people and they way they talk and think. The DeBeers stuff, while interesting, felt forced — more like something she just couldn’t give up after she happened upon it. And while I did actually gasp and laugh out loud as the stories wound their way into each other by the book’s end, I dislike the back and forth time-traveling. It takes a masterful hand to do the work so the reader doesn’t have to.
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