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Title: Kept waiting for the good part...
Review: Yeah...no. The back of the book was far more compelling than the actual novel. Some well-written scenes and occasionally a lovely sense of time and place, some well-crafted caricatures -- none of it is enough to rescue the self-concious, coming of age tone, despite the author's obvious attempt at something much more noble and searingly insightful. It's as if we get a lot more anatomically involved in "Are You There, God, It's Me Margaret" when what the author was shooting for was "The Vagina Monologues." The book is readable, but only if you've checked it out from the library.
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