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Review title: A study in minutiae
Product review: I bought this book because I am a singer. I heard on NPR that it is being made into an opera. That sounded intriguing. I must preface my remarks by saying that the book I read before this was the autobiography of Maria von Trapp. Obviously, I had just come from a book that was full of twists and turns, close calls, movement from country to country, etc. What was SO FRUSTRATING about this book is its over-reliance on minutiae. The majority of the book takes place in one room. Toward the end, the characters start to travel to other rooms in the house. I became mildly interested when the plot began to turn on the eventual interaction between the characters. Perhaps I am just not a fan of this genre. Perhaps "magical realism", as this book has been labeled, is not for me. I have no problem with Patchett's writing ability. The writing is poetic and informed. I just feel that the plot was very flat until a spike at the end followed by an unusual epilogue.
