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Title: So disappointing
Review: I had been looking forward to Sue Mon Kidd's next novel since reading the marvelous Secret Life of Bees. And man am I disappointed. The basic storyline? A self-absorbed and privileged white women takes a self indulgent oddysey, carefully masked as spiritual awakening. Especially annoying was her tendency to rationalize her extramarital affair, basically based on sexual attraction, as life-affirming, spiritually awakening... love. Pa-leeze. Enter her Mother's two friends, straight out of a Lifetime Network movie, a great husband who is somehow a villain for what? Not insisting that his wife find her own life? and a cast of bitter characters in a monastery, and you have a novel. I have no problem with characters with feet of clay. What annoyed me was the dishonesty of cloaking the novel as a spiritual awakening.
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