Title: Mundane and mundaner
Product review: I picked this book up several times when it was first out and then again with its paperback debut and always put it down without buying. Then a friend passed a copy along to me. After finishing it, I found my first reservations were correct. What a grindingly slow, unsurprising, indulgent book. It centers around a woman who revisits her life in a "commune" (it's no commune anyone from those days would recognize) in the 1960s after encountering a housemate from those days. There's a murder mystery around which the entire book revolves, but if you don't figure out this whodunnit about three chapters before it's revealed, you're not reading closely enough! The modern-day characters are curiously detached from their livelihoods and almost universally depressing as they grind through their days. Have to say this is one to skip.
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