Review: Stereotypes Everywhere
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 23, 2013
This book took me a while to finish and finished like a smoke trail wafting away in the air with no real conclusion.  The story is told through the mostly internal thoughts of each character from one to the other presented in chapter form.  And mostly there seems to be a lot of sexual thoughts going on creating a lot of tension throughout.  A household full of in the main young women and with only two of age adult males can cause a lot of sexual tension, especially when one of the men seems to think of nothing else but sex, and whose own marriage is unsatisfying.  In the background is the ongoing WWII story and its affect on the home front, and there is the usual racial tensions between blacks and whites in the southern community.  As an aside a young white boy has gone missing, a local German POW has escaped and shacked up with one of the young ladies of the household and the bedridden, aging brother of the matron of the household obtains a rifle and becomes obsessed with using the rifle against an imagined black threat. It all comes to a conclusion of sorts, with the characters sort of spinning off into changed positions, but with nothing really solved and a sort of desperate banality remaining.