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Review title: Wonderful premise, but too much literary theory...
Product review: I usually read every book that I buy since I am an English instructor as well as a lifelong avid reader. However, this book was not engaging at all. I expected to glean a few insights on the nature of literature and how it enriches our lives and connects us as human beings, whether we are Muslim women in the Middle East living under extremist, fundamentalist religious governments, or whether we are people in the white bread, tree lined streets of the Midwest who live in relatively peaceful and stable circumstances. Instead there was too much revealing what the author herself knew about and was expert in, and it started to sound like the literary criticism class I took and dreaded in graduate school because the professor was so narcissistic.I choose books because they give me a look at how life works in other cultures, historical eras, and geographical locations, but this one, no matter what the setting, does not appeal to me.
