I also liked the characters in the story. Though none of them were very likeable as people, they created an interesting dynamic when thrown together.
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Alexander Chee
Koreanish 
How well said.
My favorite Nick Hornby novel is /How to Be Good/. None of its characters seem like people I’d like to be friends with. Yet, the story and their concerns unsettle and move me.
This complicates (in a good way) that impulse readers have to find characters “sympethetic,” which I believe you have written about before, Alex.
Sort of like an English department.
Seems about right to me. Which book?