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Book Review of The Obituary Writer: A Novel

The Obituary Writer: A Novel
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Helpful Score: 2


Enjoyed the book. I was intrigued by the back and forth style of writing, at first put off, then embracing it. Although I guessed who they were to each other by midway, the smaller mysteries still held my interest. Well written, but a few mistakes were a bit annoying. The author's mix-up of the two women's names would have been easily corrected by proper editing. However nothing was bad enough to keep me from finishing this well written story of the lives of two women, connected somehow during two separate eras of history.
Note: Background information on the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was interesting. The brief Kennedy period was a poignant memory as well.