I finished it back on the 9th. I didn't feel the stories of the two characters went well together at all. It seems to be two narratives, just lightly intertwined at certain points and at that, mostly in Gwendolyn's mind.
There did seem to be a lot of meandering philosophical passages. IMO, there are a couple of 100-page novels struggling to escape from this 800-page behemoth.
Perhaps we need a Gwendolyn discussion and a Daniel discussion. (And a racism discussion!!)
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