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Dec 16, 2013miaone rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
This is a tedious book. The women in the family are not interesting except for their ages. Their lives are mind-numbingly dull. They don't go anywhere or do anything except wander around the olive groves both physically and emotionally. They don't get along with each other yet insist on living under the same roof except for one who's in prison. Their lives are tiresome, and the "secrets" the book jacket keeps promising are banal. "That's all?" I kept asking. The first secret is so utterly unlikely that I kept thinking there must be something more to it; this couldn't possibly be meant as the entire premise for the book. The second secret is of the who-cares variety, because the only people to whom it would matter are ancient men who live far away and never appear in the book except to be referred to collectively as "the boys". This book was a big bore. Don't bother to read it.