Title: Don't Believe the Hype!
Product review: This week's (1/16/03) New York Review of Books has an excellent article as to why this book is so popular: some post-9/11 need for simplistic healing and soothing fantasy about life after death.Sebold is more of a poet than a fiction writer. That is, she's adept at spinning pretty images, rather than showing us the paces of a plot. The characters are cardboard cutouts, and by the time the "dead" narrator slips inside the body of her old schoolchum, I knew we'd entered rock-song teen fantasy.
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