This is a very disappointing read!!! I find it too tedious to read - the storyline is not focused, it goes too much into describing the nitty-gritty of the characters' lives...yet at the same time, I can't seem to connect with them. I don't see any point in describing them at all. I'm only half-way reading the book, and it feels like squeezing blood from stone...One of the driest and boring book I've ever read (and I've read many a best-seller).