Visiting Hours, a novel-in-stories, explores the lives of people not normally met on the page---AIDS patients and those who care for them. Set in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and written with large and frequent dollops of humor, the book is a profound meditation on faith and love in the face of illness and poverty.
Good but not great. Being a resident of the area I was a bit offended by the way the characters and author depicted the residents of Baton Rouge. I do hope this is not her true opinion of the area, as one cannot judge the character of an entire city based on one subset of that area. That said, it was fun to read about places with which I am familiar.
Waste of time....... characters trite and notary sympathetic. Author is a good writer of adolescent books, but her style does not work with adult fiction.