Title: Book Club Fodder
Product review: It is difficult for me to undestand the praise this book has recieved. It does not deal with a new issue (female empowerment) or an old issue in a new way (female economic/communal life). It does not press on the English language (flying = freedom, female as producer and queen bee) or introduce us to new ways of thinking (a white character marvels at how her urine is the same urine as that of a black character; I honestly laughed out loud at this retake on the "common blood"). It is, in short, appropriate only for a book club that requires that everyone be beaten over the head with the theme, and trades understanding for learning; I wish book clubs weren't about feeling empowered but about actually coming to a new, challenging experience. Read Barbara Kingsolver's Pigs In Heaven, Toni Morrison's Beloved, or Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter Of Maladies for better books that concern race and womanhood.
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