I have never before had a novel with so little action keep me so engaged. Whereabouts is a series of vignettes about an unnamed middle aged woman who lives in a tiny Italian town. She has romantic inclinations towards her friend’s husband which is a thread through several of the vignettes. She is a professor. She does not seem particularly happy. Her life is small but the description of her life and the way she sees her world kept me reading. Definitely not a book for everyone but I enjoyed it.