Title: Not worth it
Product review: Barely worth the time to read. I skimmed. The frame of the story is weak and clearly constructed just for the sake of stringing together anecdotes about some lively women--I was bored by it pretty much from the get-go. The dialogue is stereotypical--the author tries too hard to make the characters say funny Southern things. While the idea of such a nurturing sisterhood is great, this book doesn't really dramatize a story about real people--it ascribes to an ideal and tells the reader about it. The jumping around between narrators is not controlled (nor explained nor justified) and therefore is distracting--you never know where the story is coming from. This might have been great stuff for a collection of essays, but not a novel.
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