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Title: Full of cliches and shallow characters
Review: I loved Kidd's earlier book 'Secret Life of Bees' but this book has been a huge disappointment. The protaganist Jessie is shallow, her mother is shallow, her lover is shallow.....her husband Hugh is the only character I liked. And what a sorry excuse for having an affair. It is full of old cliched themes. Jessie needs to have an affair to 'find herself' and understand her marriage. The 1 star is for Kidd's writing style which is never boring.
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