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Review title: The Unbearable Heaviness of Being
Product review: This novel has been described as "bittersweet," but I couldn't find any sweetness in it. Set in 1972, an extremely dysfunctional family in rural Wisconsin is described with care and skill by the author, who has a great talent but who unfortunately for this reader, has produced one long horror story, replete with ghosts, Christian imagery, nightmarish relatives, physical abuse and mental cruelty, as well as trials for the protagonist that not even a female Job could bear. Forced to live with supremely nasty in-laws because of her husband's refusal to seek work, Ellen Grier is treated by them like a slave, is trodden upon, ignored, overworked, insulted, and even robbed of her earnings by her husband. I kept hoping her rebellion would come early and count for something. Not a book I would earmark for rereading.
