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Title: Do not waste your time
Review: First, as a native, there is nothing more irritating than reading (or hearing) what is purported to be a central Vermont accent. In as much as Ms. Morris lives in Massachusetts, she ought to know there are more than a dozen spoken dialects in New England. Not one of them 'sounds' anything like what she's written.Second, as a reader, one shouldn't have to spend the first 40 pages of a novel writing down twenty-plus characters' names and relationship in order to follow the storyline. Then again, it would be a gross exaggeration to say there is a storyline in the first 100 pages.Speaking of names, what the heck is with the odd names? First names: Jarden, Jozia, Grondine, Astrid, Renie, Omar, Laydee- in VERMONT?! Puh-leez...I only wish this novel had a hole drilled through it so I could hang it next to the commode with the almanac. Instead, it's headed to the kindling box so as not to inflict another reader with rubbish.
