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Title: Not Very Good
Review: I saw Vendela Vida speak along with ZZ Packer and Andrew Sean Greer, and I bought all three of these young authors' works. The others were wonderful, and this one was just not good at all. The plot was bumpy and the narrative was just plain dull. I think she was going for minimalism. But through enormous life changes, the narrator is nonplussed to the point of being infuriating. I finished the book feeling I'd wasted my time. I see that Vida's other works have been better reviewed on this site, so I might give one of them a shot. But not for a while.
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