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Title: Not Really a Novel
Review: This book reads not as a novel but as a set of assignments written in college (I won't say in a MFA program because they are not that good). After graduation, the author evidently got the idea that "Hey, if I add a few transition sentences, the New York Mugging piece, the Home with Family piece, and the Philippines piece could be woven together into something long enough to pass off as a book."Alas, the weaving is not very good and none of the threads are pulled together at the end. The book just expires of its own tediousness. I am heartened to see that the passing off may have worked with her publisher but not with most of my fellow Amazon reviewers.If you want to read a great book that weaves together seemingly disparate stories and then wraps them together into a powerful ending, try McEwan's Atonement.
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