Derry Girls Uncle Colm if he was an insufferable boy mom.
Actually, worse, because though Uncle Colm drones on and on, at least his stories are interesting at their core. This was like listening to a child: “this happened and then this happened and then this happened and then…” 
Flat characters who were self serving and annoying. 
Violetta marries a literal Nazi and only leaves him because he wasn’t passionate enough? Then stays with an abusive (passionate!) man despite her child pleading over and over for her to leave him. Her politics stay vague and meaningless even as she magically opens organizations to mysteriously help women.
She recognizes how the USA destabilizes her country, but praises the colonialist work her grandson does in the Congo. 
The book had so much promise with the idea of a woman born during the Great Influenza and dying during the COVID-19 pandemic, but nothing of substance came out of this annoying text. 
Only finished reading because I need it to complete a reading challenge and the other books I wanted for those prompts might not come off hold before the challenge end date.