Oh great, no 5 star reviews. Thank god I bought it at a thrift store.

Well. Not bad, not great. I do like the nostalgic haze of her past. Yes, it could be more fleshed out, but perhaps the shallowness is just the faded image of memory.
The only thing that kept me going was this weird desire to inhabit the 70s/80s as a reader.

Giving this three stars for some good characters, writing and believable portrayals of different decades (60s/70s/80s), but it was too slow in parts and never quite gelled for me. ( )

Written in three rather contrived sections: "Morning," "Afternoon," "Evening," which I guess were supposed to connote different stages of her life. The first was the best, though the whole was riddled with similes and metaphors (the author mentioned in her interview at the end that a critic complained there were too many metaphors; "as if there were a limit," responded the author). Yes there is a limit; it's to the readers' patience. To me it means careless writing that breaks my suspension of disbelief - as did the protagonist's November birthday and claim that she was a Gemini. Too much remove from the protagonist; too much recounting of events of her life instead of the central, barely discussed theme of how she accepted the fact that she was gay. ( )