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Review title: This book feels like a parody of Anita Shreve's better work
Product review: All of the elements that make "The Weight of Water," "The Pilot's Wife" and "The Last Time They Met" compelling are there: the sense of longing, of what might have been, haunting memories, sensuality, unresolved and unrequited first loves. But perhaps because so many of the characters are experiencing these same feelings at once, there's a feeling of overkill and emptiness to it all. "Wedding,"in fact, almost reads like a caricature of the Shreve we know and love. It was interesting, theoretically, to observe the parallels in this book, the same formula for a relationship repeating itself again and again. But the characters felt hollow, perhaps because they were all asked to share the same basic conflict and plot. Harrison in particular annoyed me...I thought he was shallow and self-indulgent.
