The second book in a row I read about failing families on failing farms, interestingly. Some reviewers found this novel dull; I found it quiet and at times almost soothing in its day to day detailing of the lives of a select few of the residents of this small town. The point of view of the book e...
Snow HER PARENTS FIGHT when they think Frances isn’t listening. Her mother brings up the truck over and over. How could Basie have done that, bought the truck without telling her? She keeps harping at him. Maybe, she says, that was Joe Fletcher’s plan all along—to marry Frances, an only child, an...
Astrid used to tease him when he was little by saying, “I think it’s a mortal wound,” whenever he would acquire a cut or a scratch needing her attention and a Band-aid. He feels now as though his saddle-sore body needs attention, and he rides with the phrase repeating over and over, and after a w...