Pat D. (pat0814) reviewed on + 379 more book reviews
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Lorrie Moore has written beautifully about complex issues. The adoption of a racially mixed child by a severely damaged white couple ends badly when the child is returned to the adoption agency when the history of the adoptive couple becomes known. Tassie, hired as a baby sitter for the child, is experiencing difficulties with her first unrequited love affair with a man who isn't what he portrays himself to be and the subsequent death of her brother. Lorrie Moore's use of the very repetitive Wednesday night sessions of people with racially mixed children became an irritant for me. Her prose is flawless and witty, but there were unresolved issues that left me wondering why the book ended when it did.
