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Title: A Big Disappointment
Review: This book got such rave reviews from Oprah, I was prepared for a great book, but I was really disappointed. The characters make terrible decisions, they are not likable or sympathetic and the plot is totally predictable after the first 60 pages or so. Also, if this is set in the present time, (I didn't catch it, if it was 20 years ago or so) then I wonder if the author has BEEN to California in the last 10 years. We have had no smoking laws in restaurants for a long time, but the main character, Kathy, constantly smokes in the mall and in several restaurant settings. There isn't one character you can care about enough to hope they make it, except maybe the son. And the basic premise, that the county could mistakenly take away her house, is very doubtful. It seems a pretty thin hook to hang this whole story on.
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