Kitchens of the Great Midwest

I know many loved this debut and maybe my experience with it was skewed as I had the good fortune of coming to this novel after reading The Lager Queen of Minnesota, but this was just a touch above ok for me. Some of the quirkiness that made Lager so great is there and there are glimpses of character development, but there are too many vignettes of characters for me. I'm hoping the trajectory from Kitchens to Lager continues and I eagerly anticipate his next book to see if that holds true.