Small town, small lives

This was a bearable, but severely flawed book. It centers around a few small town people in upper New York state. Although these small town folks are well fleshed out, and live in shades of grey, they are ultimately people I'm glad I don't know. Venice is only a brief setting in the book, and not well captured at that. And the introduction of a new narrator in the last tenth of the book is jarring, although this maybe the best section of the book.

2/10