in a sentence: life in holt, CO may be simple, but that doesn't mean it's boring.plainsong is a weaving of 4 intertwined story lines - a pregger teen, 2 boys who are dealing with the complicated and unfortunate circumstances of their parents divorce, the father of the boys, and finally two old farme...
When this novel first came out it got quite a bit of attention, and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1999. Unlike the last Western-themed novel I read, [book: An Unfinished Life], here the characters are less caricatures and more genuine – their problems are complex and their lives mirr...
Victoria Robideaux is 17 and pregnant. Her mother throws her out and she is taken in, for a time, by the kindly Maggie Jones. But Maggie’s old father is off his rocker and this makes for a dangerous household for Vicky. She winds up with two brothers, Raymond and Harold McPheron, sheltered gentlemen...
This was a "community read" book selected for the Kansas City metro area in the early 2000s. I remember attending a discussion group to talk about the book, but I hardly remember much of the book. Here's a review from the 2013 PageADay Book Lover's Calendar:Set in a small community on the plains o...
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