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Title: Skip it!
Review: I do not know what all these 5 star reviews are raving about. I didn't like this book for several reasons. They are, in no particular order: It's about too many people and not one of them gets a thorough development--it's just snipets of lots of people's lives. It's only about women--how boring! The men in the book are in the background and hardly even named. This means only mother-daughter relationships are discussed, and it makes for pretty monotonous fare by the end of the book. Finally, the theme of rebellion against old world culture has potential, but the author gives it a very one-dimensional treatment. Simply move away from home and drink too much and you're saying something new and different about living in the American melting pot? In short, I though this book was shallow. I wouldn't have finished it if not for the book group I read it for.
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