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Loved the voice, the stories, how they were interconnected.
I didn't like this book but I also didn't hate it either. I have so many mixed feelings about this book. I liked the beautiful writing but what Tallent wrote and how she organized everything just didn't make sense to me. I think the best way I could describe this is that Tallent had a lot of good story ideas and just slapped them together. I was bored and confused a lot of the time. I found myself really just skimming the book without really comprehending anything. This book had some potential b...
This collection is probably going to speak more to women, but what I admire about Tallent is her ability to nail an ending and just have everything come together in the last moments. She's a good one to have around if, as a writer, you are always writing past the end or stopping before it, or (as in my frequent case) just not quite getting it "right."