This was a book club selection for me and I wasn't looking forward to reading it. At all. After maybe 100 pages or so, I really got into it and could not put it down. The book is written in three "sections" and once I reached section two continuing reading became laborsome. As of today, I have 40 pages left to read still, but my interest is completely gone. For me, the main character is not believable and not very likable. It doesn't make sense to me how her educated, German-born parents didn't make an effort to assimilate once they were in the US. Instead they just settled into a life of squalor.
There is a lot of dark subject matter dealt with, but that wasn't the problem for me in this book. Over all it just seems far fetched and unlikely.
There is a lot of dark subject matter dealt with, but that wasn't the problem for me in this book. Over all it just seems far fetched and unlikely.
