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Aug 03, 2015wyenotgo rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
I think this will be the last of Laurence's books I will read. Well written, to be sure but in the end, depressing. Rachel, a 34 year old spinster Grade Two teacher (how predictably tiresome is that?) lives a life of quiet desperation, tyrannized by her petty-minded Principal and her guilt-tripping mother. She finally meets a man who manages to awaken her sexually (sort of) but who(probably realizing what a hopeless case she is) leaves town without so much as a phone call. The only interesting aspects to Rachel's life appear to have been a false pregnancy and a visit to a religious gathering where folks become ecstatic (delusional?) and "speak in tongues" (a.k.a. gibberish). This follows more or less the pattern of each one of Laurence's main characters: women who, for one reason or another cannot cope with the lives they lead, long to experience something better/different/cataclysmic (who knows?) and in the end just go on being the boring people they are. Enough, already!