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mlafaive's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
foraging_pages's review against another edition
4.0
Read for Rural Literature class.
Interesting but short collection of stories from the Cross family on their ranch in Colorado, very easy to read and digest.
Interesting but short collection of stories from the Cross family on their ranch in Colorado, very easy to read and digest.
alicefaye_'s review against another edition
4.0
Laura Pritchett's writing is beautiful, it's wistful and has a natural flow to it that made reading this feel like listening to real people tell me stories about their lives. Some of these stories are horrifying, like Dry Roots, and some are bitter sweet like Summer Flood but all 10 of them are utterly beautiful. The easiest 4 star I've ever given, I only wish it was longer.
rphalange's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.25
I generally liked the book as a whole. The latter half was less interesting and I didn't like the unexpected turn to first person, and struggled to understand whose head I was in.
Like other reviewers have noted this isn't a story in the traditional sense but a series of vignettes. I didn't have a problem with that. All chapters and the overall story have resolutions.
I liked most of the characters, and my favorite stories were the ones focusing on inner turmoil or relationship strife, though that's pretty much all stories, more or less, plus cows.
Some of the prose landed as overly deliberate ("on the nose") but other passages were so beautiful I quite literally bookmarked them.
Like other reviewers have noted this isn't a story in the traditional sense but a series of vignettes. I didn't have a problem with that. All chapters and the overall story have resolutions.
I liked most of the characters, and my favorite stories were the ones focusing on inner turmoil or relationship strife, though that's pretty much all stories, more or less, plus cows.
Some of the prose landed as overly deliberate ("on the nose") but other passages were so beautiful I quite literally bookmarked them.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death
connieaw's review against another edition
3.0
This a book of short stories about a family that lives the ranch life in Colorado. They aren't in any kind of order and the stories are sad and depressing. Reminds me of my old life on a ranch in Colorado....
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