> If you're surprised to find occasional micro-aggressions in small towns, well... bless your heart.
There's reasons plenty of people prefer cities over large towns. At least in the city, people will have the decency to just directly tell you to go fuck yourself. Saves time.
BREAKING NEWS: Small town Germans not effusively welcoming to representative of foreign military, yuppie wife who expects place to work like California.
No kidding, this review made me very interested in reading the novel. I wonder if something about a depiction of anxious, uptight, pretentious and rudderless hipsters struck a little close to home for the reviewer.
I feel ridiculous having to explain this, but it's possible to know the name of a place and still get it wrong when you intend to write it down, or overlook a mistake when reading it over.