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Title: Boring and Contrived
Review: The son is unlikeable and boring. The parents are unsympathetic and ordinary upper-middle-class pseudo-sophisticated New Yorkers. The divorce upsets the son, and they probably shouldn't even have gotten divorced in the first place. Okay, now what? Who cares about the people in this book?I've handled some serious custody cases, and some that were not as intense, just like the one in this book. Of course everyone's adversely affected. That's stating a non-sequitur. The effect of divorce and custody on kids is a story that definitely needs to be told. But someone needs to do a better job than this. As for the hyper-sentimental ending? We should all be so lucky and have our underachiever kids get "discovered" by a famous artist while they're living in the boonies. Seriously.
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