The attraction between Nettie and Melvin feels predestined, but Josaphat takes her time. Indeed, it took me a long minute to get used to this novel’s surprising blending of genres ... Part of me worries that in my obsequious effort to avoid being one of those old White gatekeepers whom Kingsolver scorns, I’m brushing aside this novel’s weaknesses — including stylistic infelicities and spores of melodrama that spread through the story’s damper sections. But I always felt engaged.
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