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Title: Genuinely overrated
Review: This is a fine first novel and shows signs of real promise-- it's witty, thoughtful and there's lots of energy on display. But it ain't the cherries jubilee the reviewers have made it out to be. Too long, too pleased with its own verbal-strutting, the novel is more like a show and tell of dialects and set pieces than a cohesive hole. And it does tend to go on and on and on when Smith finds a character or a subject she's hooked on. One day she'll write a terrific book. This isn't it.
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