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Am I the only one who was furious about the pink chick-lit, rom-com cover on this book? It belittles the book in exactly the same way Elizabeth Zott is belittled!

Debra T I was not bothered by the cover. It reminded me of the cover for Where’d You Go Bernadette, and this book has a similar appeal. I thoroughly enjoyed b…moreI was not bothered by the cover. It reminded me of the cover for Where’d You Go Bernadette, and this book has a similar appeal. I thoroughly enjoyed both. Perhaps the publisher was trying to capture those readers. The book is successful, so maybe they were not so far off. I looked at the British cover, and didn’t care for it. Elizabeth Zott would not have liked that shirtwaist dress. The German cover looks like historical fiction, which this book is not. All that being said, cover art is tricky, and I am often left wondering what they were thinking.(less)

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