content: I gave this book two stars because I am not big on reading books that include every detail of every second. I realie that when writing fiction books you must show a lot of detail to make the reader feel as though it is a real place or time but, when the main characters breakfast is describe to a "T", that is getting a little dicouraging. Ann Petry did write a good book, better than I could of wrote and I would recommend reading it to others but, I would never read it again. The ending left a little to be desired as well. When a book makes it hard for you to stay interested and then kind of leaves you hanging at the end it makes it hard to give it a good review.