Title: No real insight is shown into the ethnic cultures depicted.
Product review: Author Finney shows no real insights into the cultures he seeks to depict in CALIFORNIA TIME. His descriptions are that of an outsider looking in; the result is that his ethnic characters don't really seem to represent their cultures. For example, Hortense is not a typical Portuguese girl growing up in the Valley in the 1930's. In the '30's (and up into the 50's even) Portuguese girls were always chaperoned on their dates; they weren't prone to using the profanity Hortense uses and they were unlikely to go into town with an unsupervised group of friends. The characterization of the Italian and Japanese families rings equally false.
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