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Review title: Nominee for over-hyped book of the year?
Product review: This author is currently being promoted here in England and I bought this novel as Sarah Jessica Parker (that well known literary critic) recommends the author.. What a let down!The story is cliched, the narrator has no inight into how she is letting her marriage fall apart, the novel's other characters are under-written and there is none of the wit or charm the book's jacket told you to expect. I also found the unchallenged remarks made about the Indian doctor racist (is that supposed to be okay because this is set in the South?).How can it take Ave Maria so long to realise that her marriage is in trouble? How could she not know Theodore was gay? The guests on Rikki are more intelligent than this woman!Do yourself a favour and buy an Anita Shreve book instead of this one.
