I'm reading this book because my book club choose it. It's mostly narrartive. There are no scenes of action and very little dialogue. Then in part two the author switches to using the present tense which is an irrating tense to read in and certainly didn't make the story "now". I kept waiting for the real story to happen, but it doesn't. One thing, if writing this bad can be acclaimed, maybe my efforts have hope. I won't read another of her books.