Rating: 
Summary: Not Miller's Best
Review: While I have liked some of Sue Miller's books ("The Good Mother" and "Inventing the Abbotts"), this one was very unsatisfying to me (as was "While I Was Gone"). I never felt that I knew the characters and because of this, could not understand their motivation. It was as though I was viewing them through a cloudy lens...the characterizatons just never were clear.I tried to feel sympathy or even empathy for Lottie and Cameron, but could never muster any. They just never really engaged me as a reader. Also, parts of their history and background seemed to be missing, as if lost in all of the changes of time that Miller used. I will try "Family Pictures" next.....hope I can get more involved.
Rating:
Summary: Not Miller's Best
Review: While I have liked some of Sue Miller's books ("The Good Mother" and "Inventing the Abbotts"), this one was very unsatisfying to me (as was "While I Was Gone"). I never felt that I knew the characters and because of this, could not understand their motivation. It was as though I was viewing them through a cloudy lens...the characterizatons just never were clear. I tried to feel sympathy or even empathy for Lottie and Cameron, but could never muster any. They just never really engaged me as a reader. Also, parts of their history and background seemed to be missing, as if lost in all of the changes of time that Miller used. I will try "Family Pictures" next.....hope I can get more involved.
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