A review by sde
The Heights by Peter Hedges

3.0

Mildly entertaining book about an insular group of people living in a mostly well-to-do neighborhood in Brooklyn. In the first half of the book, I was drawn into the story of the main characters in the book - a high school history teacher and his stay-at-home/foundation employee wife. I felt the characters became more annoying and more of a caricature as the book went on. I didn't feel I had a real sense of the reasons behind why they did what they did. I especially didn't feel I really understood one of the pivotal characters - Anna Brody, the young wife of an older very wealthy man - at all. I would have liked to get into her head a little more. Although I didn't like the second part of the book as much, I was definitely caught up enough in their lives to finish the book.