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Title: Flat-footed prose, paper-thin characters; needs editing.
Review: A flat, meandering, shambling book; most characters are distinguishable from one another by name alone (although, as a "good read" it gets better at the end). If you want good southern gothic, stick to Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty. If you want California angst, read Joan Didion.
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