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Title: Like cheap chocolate: ok but not worth the calories
Review: Don't know what book the other reviewers read...the "characters" are more like "caricatures". We can fully describe each character in a single sentence. The plot is not only linear but predictable. Yes, it's a "light read" but I want more entertainment in a "light" reading, more "heat" if it is supposed to be a romance novel (which I wouldn't read anyway), or more thought-provocation in a book that addresses an ethnic, career woman's life in the 1950s. This book is none of the above. After reading it, I went back and re-read the "rave review" sound bites on the cover -- and found they are not for this novel but for Trigiani's Big Stone Gap series -- I'll pass.
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