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Title: Weak ending to a very strong arc
Review: The narrative power of this exceptional book is stunning. How can it be that you find yourself laughing at pratfalls and Clouseau'esque pronouncements in the same page filled with grief so powerful that you had to pause to recover? In that context, I was disappointed with the ending which attempted a cleanup of all loose ends to create a moebius strip-like circular plot with a Hollywood-like neatness. Nothing intrinsically wrong with that, except the writing was not up to the task of keeping all the twists in place while maintaining the same naturalistic tone of the rest of the book.Nonetheless, a page turner.[Later edit] Ah, two revelations: One proceeds logically from the review above, the book has already been optioned as a movie. The second is pleasantly contextual, the author is married to one of the Foer brothers. The hermeneutic circle is complete.
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