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Title: If you like Anne Tyler, check this out
Review: After getting over my initial bewilderment of a straight woman character knowingly marrying a gay man and obsessing over him long after his death, it all was made plausible as Patchett weaved this reader into another well told story. Filled with a colorful cast of characters based in L.A. and Alliance, Nebraska. I have become more and more a fan of Ann Patchett's work. Her stories are nicely diverse and spread out all across the human spectrum.Her extended dream sequences don't make a lot of sense to me, and I thought bogged down the pace on this one, still I enjoyed the book as a whole. I like the subject a lot, "families with major issues". Reminded me of Anne Tyler (high praise), and just as good.
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