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Title: tedious, frustrating and overwritten
Review: Reading this book was an exercise in frustration. Oates takes three pages to describe an event that could have been summed up in two paragraphs. But beyond that, she never made it clear why the family fell apart. We saw how happily "perfect" they were prior to the tragic event (cutesy nicknames and all) and then how they fell apart at the seems afterwards. But we never saw WHY. That made the entire second half of the story almost implausible. By the time I got to the end, I was less concerned with what happened to the characters than I was with just FINALLY finishing the book.
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