Title: Too many stories....
Product review: The novel might have been better with one or two fewer characters. Even though the book is written in a format which focuses on each character for a few chapters at a time, I think these women have so many ISSUES, so many stories, that it is impossible to "flesh them out" in the book. As a result, I couldn't empathize with these women, nor could I sympathize for them. I also had a problem with the believability of the characters;i.e., Arneatha, when a child is pressed into her arms at the airport, simply boards the plane with the child--instant single-motherhood; Tamara, denied tenure at a NY college, moves back to Philly, with no visible means of support; Audrey is allowed to design a program for recovering alcoholics when she has yet to recover herself
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