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A Separation by Katie Kitamura

Not for me, DNF.

I did not care for the main character right from the start. The writing was beautiful, but boring to me. A lot of it really dragged on. I didn't like the lack of quotations around dialogue and found myself backing up to re-read the phrase as dialogue many times. I also didn't really care for the use of all of the em dashes that were used to throw in other bits of information right in the middle of a sentence. And of course, I didn't like the aspect of her husband cheating.

Over all, I just did not care about the characters or the storyline... I read long enough to find out what happened to the husband. Then, again, realizing that I truly did not care, I had to call it.