Title: Bright Lights, Big City Set in Africa
Product review: This is a terrible book about petty, self-absorbed people who go around feeling cool about living in Africa. The high point is when Esme gets pregnant by a guy she likes, kind of loves. She suddenly feels she has a purpose in her life (we were wondering since this is half-way through the book). When she loses the baby, she is sad, but more than anything miffed at her ob/gyn for snubbing her. The best thing I can say about this book is that it makes the most ordinary of us feel profound and heroic for taking out the trash compared to these cardboard cut-out characters. The editorial reviews were very misleading. One reviewer compared Ms. Marciano to Jean Rhys. Anyone who has read The Wide Sargasso Sea would consider that a howler.
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