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sfahrney's review against another edition
2.0
Writing is choppy... and sometimes hard to follow. Some well written paragraphs though. Wasn't until more than half way through that I cared about the characters at all.
beasley's review
2.0
There were things I really liked about this book: Susan Straight writes some beautiful sentences; I greatly enjoyed all of the Louisiana backstory; I also enjoyed the tension in the narrator's position as the person who left a small, tight-knit community in order to travel the world and follow her dreams. I did not enjoy the plot involving the narrator's godson, and the parts of the book where various characters traveled from California to Louisiana right as Hurricane Katrina was bearing down on the Gulf. I thought that part of the story was fairly incoherent, with increasing numbers of characters, locations, and situations being thrown at the reader and making a chaotic mess. While that dovetailed with the chaotic mess of Hurricane Katrina, I found it all wearying, tiresome, and not terribly interesting.
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