Friends highly recommended that I read this book. I never realized what a difference in taste we have in literature. This story reminds me of those romance novels that have the beautiful women and handsome men on the cover. The story was repetitive. Ms Rivers used more detail describing her characters' looks than developing them into real people. The storekeeper and the restaurant owner were more interesting than anybody else was. But at least she kept it clean. She told us what was going on without lurid detail.