Cynthia Rylant created a slow story "checouts". She also created a story without a happy ending.
The story is slow because in the begining they tell more details than the ones are needed and is not very interesting because it is more long than is needed. For example, "they moved her to cincinnati, where for a month she spent the greater part of every day in a room full of beleved glass windows sifting trought photograph of the life shed'd lived" these is an example because it shows a lot of details.
At the end you thought it would had a happy ending but no because the guy she fell in love with couldnt be her boyfriend. A example of the book is this "and when finally they did meet up again, neither offered a clue to the other that he, or she, had been the object of obsessive thought for weeks" this example is good because it tell kind of the end and they are not toghether.
In conclusion cynthia Rylant made a bad story "checouts" because its very slow and it doesn't have a good ending.