![]() Gentry, fortunately, is more than up to the challenge. When you write about issues like these, you’re never just writing about individual characters and what happens to them, so it takes a deft hand to write this plot without the characters seeming like ciphers. Betty is an intriguing metaphor for how playing a role gets us through both trauma and stage fright, and Gentry never hits us over the head with the layers of meaning. Dana, meanwhile, quite literally discovers a new side of herself in the wake of the deal: her new standup persona, “Betty,” a cartoonish, semi-feral grotesque who’s somewhere between Edward Hyde and Cristin Milioti’s “very sexy baby” 30 Rock character. Amanda, as it turns out, has more than one man in mind and isn’t done with Dana yet. Of course, this isn’t a 100-page book, so things aren’t that simple. ![]()
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