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Review title: Pedestrian, predictable, flat
Product review: I wanted to like this book -- it's set in Cleveland Park in Washington, D.C., where I lived for many years -- but it never won me over. For one thing, it's unimaginative: I had the sense that the writer was just fictionalizing aspects of her own life. The narrator's self-descriptions sound remarkably like the photo of the author, and details about the neighborhood don't conjure up any sense of atmosphere. There isn't a single metaphor or evocative image in the whole book, and precious little insight. Add an occasional jarringly bad detail, such as a Catholic church wedding held on a Sunday, and you have, all told, a dud.
