Title: Shallow characters and an alcoholic storyline.
Product review: I recently read an article reviewing "A Monk Swimming", which praised the happily drunk main character and his antics, but warned that people who had alcoholics in their circle of family or friends would not find this story amusing. "Ya-yas" is another such book. It is painful to see Vivi and her ya-ya friends soaking up hard liquor as the children play and swim around them, or pack a cooler of Bloody Marys while they hop in the car and get drunk on the road. Anyone who knows the tragedy alcoholics face in their daily life will not find this glorification of such activities very charming at all.
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