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Title: Almost didn't finish this one....
Review: "Incendiary" is a tale told as a letter from a London working class woman to Osama bin Laden. She has a husband who is in the local bomb squad (detection and dismantling) and a son, "four years and three months old." She tells the story of a bombing in London and its impact -- on London and on herself.Though the narrator is not supposed to be that educated, the poor grammar and continual run-on-sentences make the narrative hard to follow. (Yes, I've heard of stream-of-conciousness, but really!) She is not someone we could learn to like, or even feel for that much, because of her bad choices. We almost find ourselves wanting bad things to happen to her. Though I'm sure this was not Cleave's purpose, this narrator actually comes off giving readers a poor opinion of working-class people. Also, the story was just plain harsh! Granted there was no gentle way to tell a story like this, but Cleave goes too far. I cannot recommend this book.
