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Sep 07, 2014roystreet rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
Yawn! I picked this out because it starts in a part of the world -- southwest Turkey -- that I know and love. The gay angle also drew me. But the people seemed weakly drawn and verging on stereotypes. They never did anything unexpected or interesting. So half way through I wearied of it and put it down. I also found the storytelling clumsy and disjointed and the settings perfunctory. Shamsie holds people and objects before us, but they remain words; they refuse to come to life.