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Title: Where is the plot?
Review: This book fell very flat for me. This has nothing to do with the Jewish themes (I love Roth and Singer) but rather with the fact that there is no sense of plot in the first 88 pages at all (that's where I threw in the towel). This is an example of one of those books that tries to be two things at once but successfully accomplishes neither. First, is this a novel or a short story collection? One reviewer calls it a collection; another calls it a novel. The fact that each chapter was published as its own story either in The New Yorker or Commentary shows that this is a patched together collection of short stories trying to pass as a novel. This led to me feeling cheated. Is the writer just trying to get the most "bang" for her buck? I felt no "pull" toward the characters at all and--for the life of me--I could not understand the favorable review snippets on the front pages and back cover. I sense these reviewers were friends of the author. Definitely pass this up.
