![]() ![]() ![]() And to learn from a book, it must be read a second time. When a book is well-written the experience is in the read-even when you think you know what is going to happen. Know that in the following there are so-called spoilers! But we are doing this as working writers willing to dissect to learn. There are a number of elements he handles so well here, and I have to note them. Nathan Harris is a young man living in Austin TX, one of my favourite cities, a place filled with working artists. But it’s a story with the word “hope” in the closing line. It is set in the south, with a real mix of characters, of people aware and trying to make a difference, and others who just want old ways to stay, and are willing to do horrific acts to make that happen. The story is set post-civil war, with freedmen trying to go about reforming their lives. I must say Obama’s list is usually so generic that it hurts.) (It’s both an Oprah pick as well as Obama-but is surely more than “best-seller” material. I find it fascinating to discuss a book with a book club group in which there are no writers, only readers.Īlthough everyone in the group appreciated this read, when we first began to discuss, there were words about sentences that weren’t whole and vocabulary that had to be looked up (“Does anyone speak like this?”) I know I tend to write in fragments, so this first comment made me pause.īut this is altogether a resonant first novel. ![]()
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