It soon becomes clear, though, that it is vital to the story's theme that the characters be seeking treatment. So Much for That continues Shriver's interest in chance, though the incidence of medical catastrophe among the cast list might initially be thought to be pushing the laws of probability.
This book's critically underrated predecessor, The Post-Birthday World, gave a woman two alternating versions of her life after a relationship decision. The only person in the narrative who is in perfect health has convinced herself she is ill and so been prescribed sugar-pill placebos in order not to feel left out. Two of the story's supporting cast also have major surgery, with one undergoing a procedure that should be restricted reading not only for hypochondriacs but for any man at all.
A typical conversation takes place through "a throat raw from intubation". deliver intraperitoneal infusions of heated cisplatin", another is undergoing a "Nissen fundoplication to cure chronic acid reflux". As a result, when one character isn't having "two ports in your abdomen.
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