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Review title: Ugh. Not Fannie Flagg's best, tiresome and superficial.
Product review: I have read all of Fannie Flagg's books, and I was really looking forward to this one. Well, it was a struggle from beginning to end. If you've never read Fannie Flagg, don't start with this one. It starts with a gushing, cloyingly sweet description of life in the 50's, and then follows the lives of her many, interesting characters into the 90's without ever fully developing them. I still don't see the point of this book, except as an exercise in over-romanticized nostalgia for an America that never was. It completely overlooks the civil rights era. In some points, it's downright preachy. And in comparison to these supposed "good old days", it descends into a barely sketched out indictment of the meaninglessness of life today. Blech.
