Title: A Disappointment
Product review: I was delighted to find this book in my local library after enjoying Snow Falling on Cedars so very much a few years ago. Delight quickly turned to disappointment. Guterson's main characters are all obsessed with sex - Ann masterbates, she's been sexually abused in her past; Tom Cook thinks constantly about raunchy sex and imagines himself doing it with every woman he runs across; the priest masterbates and thinks about sex and the woman that "befriends" Ann (really uses her) is worried about men being attracted to her. I felt like Guterson was having some sort of mid life crisis, couldn't stop thinking about sex and had to write a book about it. It totally overwhelmed what could have been a very interesting and imaginative story. The ending was a disappointment as well - not what I had hoped or expected. I hope Mr. Guterson's got another good book in him somewhere - this sure isn't it.
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