The Other Americans

So disappointing. Some characters are so flat and hackneyed (the cop, his war buddy for example). The sex scenes from the romance are corny. What is the book even meant to be – a who done it? A chance for diverse voices to speak and share their world? A family melodrama? A look at how the country is evolving? For me, an unsatisfying book which I'm sorry I bothered to finish.

Although I'm a little tired of the multi-narrator novel, I did like this book, which is really Nora's story. (I've often thought that if multiple narrators are used, there should be one voice predominating, and here we get more of Nora than anyone else, we switch often to all the rest of the novel's characters, in a way that feels a little lazy to me.) Still, it was engaging and I sympathized with most of them, although sometimes wanting to knock some sense into them.

i really enjoyed the writing style, how it shifts to each characters perspective.

Loved it.