The Pursuit of William Abbey

I'm still wrapping my head around the bulk of the story so I'll just say I have mixed feelings about the framing device. At times it was compelling to read the outsider's perspective of the primary narrator, and the reason for that narrator being in that place was an interesting twist. Other times I just went “wait, how long has he just been talking?”
No also I'll say I have mixed feelings about the multicultural settings. Early on I was worried it would turn into “oh no a spooky black lady put a magic curse on a poor innocent white guy” and I was glad it DIDN'T turn into that. But for how much the primary narrator travels the world, wow the whiter countries got a lot of attention. Again there's some justifications for it at certain points in the story (characters trying to leverage the privilege educated white people brought to international spaces), but with as many times as he says he goes to India, I really could have read more pages about India than about the walk he took by himself in Australia. If he connects with two different women maybe the Indian could get a quarter of the attention that the Irish girl (who's avoiding him) gets. The author makes it very clear that the phenomenon described in the book occurs in any and every culture, yet it only really matters if it impacts people from the British Isles, and maybe a couple central and western Europeans. We meet one Asian man (in America) for like one chapter and then he disappears. The narrator literally could have gone back to Africa any time and it might have been helpful, but he just didn't.
But overall I really enjoyed reading this. It was terrible bedtime reading as I got curious about all the twisting intrigues and caught up in the urgency of the approaching curse.