Title: Don't Waste Your Time
Product review: This book was among several on the "Free-Help Yourself" table at the library. The blurbs on the back cover made it sound interesting and I wondered if it had been placed on the table by mistake. Au contraire. The writing was uneven and, in places ugly. It reads as if Ms. Strout had resurrected some old papers from a religious history course and tried to incorporate them into a story sequence while visiting a locker room. She seemed to be striving for "holy" with many references to Bonhoeffer and cheap vs. costly grace, but her plot was weak with threads that went nowhere and the result was more "holey" than holy. Characters were wooden, not fleshed out and inserted awkwardly. Search elsewhere for grace.
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