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I picked this book up several years ago in a bargain bin. I'm glad I didn't spend a lot of money on it. I struggled to get through it and finally at month end, I just admitted defeat and didn't finish it. I'm not sure why I struggled with this book, the writing wasn't terrible. Maybe it was the skipping back and forth between the past, the not-so-past, and the present - while it was well done, I generally avoid books that do a lot of that. Blame it on low intelligence, but I think authors shouldn't need to do that skipping around to create drama. And that is all they're doing.

I started this when I came home after call yesterday and finished it the same day, despite my usual post-call 5 hour nap. There's a frame narrative with the narrator looking back on his life from his position in the nursing home, and the scenes in the NH are really wonderfully written and characterized. (Despite the fact that the doctor prescibes amitriptylline to this 90 or 93 year-old; apparently she wasn't worried that it's on the Beers list nor was she worried about putting him into flagrant urinary retention). The story was interesting, though some of the characters were a little 2D. It's not a book I'd pick up to re-read, but definitely entertaining the first time through.