Recently I was chatting with my sister about a student project (she teaches) and asked whether the art project, which sounded camp, was camp. She said 'all teenagers are camp by default.' Wise words that I thought about while reading this one.
It is about graduate students, but it could equally be about teenagers: it's all so breathy and over-the-top. If it was music, it'd be Chappell Roan crossed with The Cure.
And it is fun at points, but the writing style didn't click with me. When it veered off the plot-and-dialog path, the introspection and descriptions seemed kind of by-the-book. But the plot and the attempts at commentary and meaning were just overwrought and boring. Objectifying women versus men, having a laugh at the silliness of MFA programs, it has the vibe of "do you get it, what we're doing here?"