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Summary: Backward and forward...
Review: This lesbian bildungsroman occasionally feels like the self-indulgent autiobiographical fantasy of first love it is. It's also occasionally fun, although a smart undergrad should find the depiction of lit crit university culture embarassingly naive and the protagonists unhelpfully flat. The prose is reasonably good, but often over-indulgent. My jaw dropped in disbelief when I saw that one of the blurbs compared the author to Jeanette WInterson. No comparison could be more off. (And that observation has nothing to do with indulgence, and everything to do with talent.) Nevertheless, it's steps above the average "light lesbian romance," if that's the category you're browsing through. A reader less demanding than I may very well love its easy sentimentality. I read it on the plane, and it really helped the time pass.