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Sad to say, I had a difficult time finishing. I wanted to like this book so much, but really, the story meandered all over the place and frankly, none of it was interesting. The author could have used a good thesauruses and perhaps come up with another word for 'fat' to describe most all of the women. As well, he had women constantly being the fragile stereotypes bursting into tears all the time. I realize the book was published 60 years ago when sexism was prevalent, but I found it hard to relate to the way the author categorized and described women. Other than that, perhaps I missed the part where it said why Leslie had the breakdown. That was the only reason I read to the end. A lot of telling and not much showing made it tedious as well.