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Title: Not a likeable - or interesting - character in sight
Review: What a worm's eye-view of the world. The characters in this book - all of them - are contemptible human beings, impossible to care about. And those names! "Kimmer" - why didn't he just call her Muffy or Bitsy or Lilibet? And "Misha"? How pretentious can we get here? What a twee name for the protagonist. As a previous reviewer remarked, this book seems to be the unfortunate offspring of a union between an unbridled ego and a publisher desperate for the all-or-nothing blockbuster. And how condescending and insulting the promotional campaign was - "Gee, whiz, you mean there's actually been this black upper middle class, right under our noses for the last hundred or so years?" The hype surrounding this windy, overlong tome has been an insult to the meanest intelligence.
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