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Title: Why, why, why?
Review: Award winning literature should provoke thoughtful questions. Susan Sontag's "In America" prompted my bookclub to ask: 1) Where the heck was her editor? 2) Was it simply Susan Sontag's turn to win the National Book Award? 3) If "In America" was penned by an unknown author, would it have even been published? 4) Did the guy who was quoted on the back cover actually read the book? Would he please tell us where the "hilarious" parts are? 5) Why did the chapters that were 1 paragraph yet 17+ pages long irritate us so? 6) Does a single interesting premise like "Immigrating to a new country allows you to reinvent yourself" merit 387 tedious pages? and finally 7) Why the heck did our bookclub pick this book?
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