A review by owlmoose
Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley

2.0

This book is about ten people who gather for a ten-day house party in the Hollywood Hills in the early days of the Iraq War. There is a plot, but it takes a significant back seats to the characters, who spend most of ten days talking, having sex, talking while having sex, and doing very little else, at least not on stage. Smiley does some interesting things with shifting narrators, but not as interesting as I hoped it would be at first (it looked like each day would be narrated by a different member of the group, but the story doesn't follow through on that possibility, to my disappointment). All right, but Smiley has written much better.