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Title: Scattered bits of people's mostly empty lives
Review: Written from several viewpoints that don't always make sense (sometimes unknown narrator, sometimes first person and known narrator),this books jumps from one bit of a person's life to another, with little about each one.I kept reading it because I hoped to learn something about North Dakota, and I did, a little, but not much; and I kept hoping it would get more interesting and complete, but it didn't.It is sort of like a photo album with a few notes under the photos, but no real story,other than that most of the characters continue to make bad choices, even when they know they are doing it.There is a lot of anger, fear, disgust, loss,fatigue, cold, resentment, and very little love, comfort, humor, support, warmth, or respect; just another story about mostly meaningless lives with very little resolution.Disappointing, and makes me very glad to not live in that kind of community.
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