Title: Beach Read
Product review: Bank took forever to write this book, and at first you may wonder why. But her prose is so deceptively simple that it evokes emotion larger than the sentences themselves. The format is somewhat unusual; the novel is written in short installments, sometimes in the second person, sometimes in the first. I hardly noticed the transitions after a while, whether from their actual seamlessness or my simple absorption in the story. The struggle for love is always interesting, and this is no exception. The protagonist, Jane, falls into relationships I certainly have settled for, and performs acts of coquettishness that recall shameful memories. But she troops on, right through the end, and Banks makes the conclusion so tantalizing (I set it down indignantly three times before realizing I couldn't not finish, no matter what happened) that I felt that this, indeed, must be what took so long. And it is worth it.
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