Stefan Sreckovic Sreckovic itibaren Barila, Uttar Pradesh, Hindistan itibaren Barila, Uttar Pradesh, Hindistan

Interesting insight into the sex lives and daddy issues of American marines in Haiti but overall the book was a slow read and weighed down with academic rhetoric.

The Country Girls Trilogy is a repackaging of three separate novels (duh), and this particular edition has an epilogue. This particular edition also has a large photo of Edna O'Brien on the back cover that made me feel like I was carrying a Danielle Steele novel around, to my embarrassment. But don't let that deter you - TCGT is well worth enduring raised eyebrows from snobby literary types like me. The middle book gets a bit bogged down, but it all pays off in book three, when Baba, the character whose voice is never heard directly in the first two books, gets her own first person narrative. Baba instantly became one of my favorite characters of all time, and her melancholy epilogue is both hilarious and heartbreaking.