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Title: The Bridge disappoints
Review: This book started out well, exploring the themes of dysfunctional families (and aren't they all), but I was truly disappointed that Marlette soon descended into trite plot devices and ended up wrapping everything in a pretty package. Family relationships rarely, if ever, work out as neatly as they did in this book, and I felt Marlette should have applied the same razor-sharp truth in this book as he uses in his cartoons.And why in the Sam Hill was the part about the escaped convict put in there? It was so jarringly out of place, I couldn't believe my eyes. It served no purpose other than to introduce some gratuitous violence.One reason why I was drawn to this book was Marlette's opening remark about his paternal grandmother being a piece of work. So was mine. If only Marlette had stuck to having his character examine his prickly relationship with his grandmother and not tried to pretty it up.What a letdown this book was, and what a shame.
