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Title: Puzzled By the All the Hoopla
Review: I finally picked up a copy of this book, which has been much-touted in the press and elsewhere, but I'm really not sure what all the enthusiasm is about. It seems to be yet another "poor little rich girl gazing at her navel" story, and the writing, while competent, is certainly unexceptional. I do appreciate the author's willingness to probe her psyche in some meaningul way, but the end result is a narrator whom I felt indifferent towards. Adoptees, in and of themselves, are not special people-- so why do we hunger for their stories?
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