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Review title: condescending, patronizing and empty of wit
Product review: Patchett 's characters feel like miniature toy humans--- cute, but incapable of stepping outside the caricature that Patchett so repetitively describes. The essential premise is promising, but Patchett fails to take advantage of it and instead relies on the kind of silly melodrama that El Presidente Masuda stayed home to watch. The result is tedious in the extreme. I felt as if I had been taken hostage.Patchett does know how to write. If only her characters were genuinely interesting, instead of stereotypes.
