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Review title: Dull writing, journalistic style
Product review: I was very disappointed by this dull, drawn out, and boring collection of essays. The most interesting writing was at the end of the book when the narrartor revealed a poem his father had written along with personal letters among brothers. Otherwise, I had to force myself to get through this rambling, male Eurocentric, dull, journalistic style collection of stories. This narrator uses tired cliches, follows a sexist and racist ideology, fails to look at the larger historical, societal, and economic factors that lead to contemporary issues of prostitution in Russia, and tries to take credit for "thinking up" the reclaiming of language that ethnic and women's studies scholars have been asserting for decades. I really did not like this book. It is pretentious and it is not even reader friendly (small to hold, small print, etc.). Try Jo Ann Beard's, The Boys of My Youth. Now there's a collection of short stories and essays!
