The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances by Glenn Dixon
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

To be honest, I asked to read this only on the strength of the title and the hope it would be lightly diversionary. The hope that it would be something more--rather than exactly like--a Readers Digest novella on the level with dogs-eye PoV of small household grief-and-family-tragedy-processing.

But here we are.

The smart appliances ho-hum and feel for their people. There's even a Lassie moment or two and we get all nostalgic for To Kill A Mockingbird and if you're lucky, there's even some literary mirroring if you're paying attention.

I'm not saying this is a bad book. It IS light and it IS diversionary, but it'd be best read if it had come out 60 years ago.

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