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Title: Where, oh where, are the editors of yesterday?
Review: As someone once said of Henry James, he chewed more than he bit off. Same goes for Carter. Good idea, good characters, good story of a multi-generational, upper-middle class black family --but bad , really bad and boring interjection of a mystery (?) that goes nowhere. Why didn't some Harold Ross type put a stop to the flow? I finished it because I was taken with the family story, but found myself sighing with frustration whenever the author veered off into the mystery tangent. I'm sure Carter will produce better fiction - he has the gift, but he needs to tighten up the narrative.
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