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Title: Not sure if I am going to make it...
Review: I am on about page 350 of this book and am struggling. Like many other reviewers, I think the basic story is a good one, but this book is way too long. The meandering random thoughts are really too much. I am resisting the temptation to read the last 100 pages.As the white(paler nation?) wife of a black(darker nation?) attorney, the whole "feel sorry for me becuase my father was a federal judge, I teach at an ivy leaugue law school, and I only inherited the house on Martha's Vineyard" is again just too much. If this is America's breakthrough novel offering insight into upper class black society, I worry about the impression it might leave unless the point is that a monied, successful black man can be just as whiny and unappreciative as a monied, successful white man. Sorry for the run-on sentence and for being so harsh, but Misha is the most unlikeable character I have encountered in some time.I'll finish the book, but only to find out the end of the story.
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