A review by jyuka
A Widow for One Year by John Irving

2.0

The first half of the book was brilliant -- endearing, complicated, flawed and believable characters, quirky situations, authentic emotion. And then somehow it all just...Petered out. Ruth is a very unlikeable, uninteresting protagonist, and also a poor writer herself! I couldn't make myself care about her or her horrid best friend or the older Eddie O'Hare. To quote an internet meme, "I am disappoint."