The Purple Line

This woman can write. My god, can she write. Metaphors flow from her like honey from a spoon. But at the end of it all, what she delivers are a few disjointed anecdotes that she painfully tries to weave together with a moral, a final integration into her primary narrative. In my opinion it doesn't work. The parallel stories never meet and there is never a final understanding of why these stories were told. The characters are not lovable. You don't fall in love with them or even despise them, you just watch them dispassionately from afar.
In all, excellent writing technique that I will study from for my own writing projects, but the actual narrative leaves much to be desired.