allymcbeal 's review for:

Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perrotta

4.0

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I've never read Perrotta's work before, and this was enough to make me want to jump in to the rest of his catalog headfirst. This book is all character. Very little driving plot to speak of, basically an examination of one unremarkable 3 month period from the perspective of ~10 distinct narrators. What I loved about this was that each storyteller had their own voice - too often all an author's characters take on the same vocabulary and tone, but this avoids that pitfall handily.

Would have been a five star score if it weren't for a gratuitous, and totally implausible hookup late in the novel. This one chapter feels totally out of place with the small, well drawn moments of the rest of the story, and really disappointed me.