Title: Why Do People Love It?
Product review: This book got great reviews and was recommended to me by someone whose taste I trust, but I've got to say, I just don't understand its appeal. It starts out as mildly intriguing, and some of the scenes with the unwed mothers in the first section are evocative, but the lovably twinkly and clairvoyant old nun is just too saccharine to bear, and the narrator of the middle section, salt-of-the-earth gardener Son, is not only too good to be true, he's also deathly boring--a dull-witted drone. I've read Bel Canto and The Patron Saint of Liars only confirms my belief that Ann Patchett's novels are overrated.
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