Summer of My Amazing Luck

A RARE DNF. I love Toews' writing (All My Puny Sorrows was beautiful) but good Lord I could not get into this one. There is virtually no plot – which, fine, I can roll with that, I'm pretentious, I love intense, well-written character studies – but I can't deal with the complete absence of verisimilitude in this novel. (Who is this wacky carefree lady whose parents stay at the Four Seasons while she and her four children live on the dole?) Bummer. :(