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3.4 AVERAGE
3.4 AVERAGE
Clyde Edgerton is one of the most brilliant contemporary writers about the American South. His characters and use of dialogue captures my experience both from my family roots and many years living in the South.
My friend made me an advent calendar of books this year, and this was the first book. She picked this one because it involves a broken tombstone and a dispute about where people will be buried, which is somehow the most interesting part of the book for me but also the least important.
There's a whole cast of characters in this Southern novel, and each person takes a turn telling part of the story, and it's fun little game to figure out the ways that each narrator is unreliable in some way. But a lot of those characters are also really unlikeable, and at times, the book was a bit of a slog to get through, despite have lots of short chapters.
It's probably 2.5 stars for me, but I'll round up to be generous.
There's a whole cast of characters in this Southern novel, and each person takes a turn telling part of the story, and it's fun little game to figure out the ways that each narrator is unreliable in some way. But a lot of those characters are also really unlikeable, and at times, the book was a bit of a slog to get through, despite have lots of short chapters.
It's probably 2.5 stars for me, but I'll round up to be generous.
great southern voice. told in sections by alternating cast of characters a la "As I Lay Dying." not quite as deep(?) as "Raney" or hilarious as "Walking Across Egypt" but a good 'un.