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A review by radioactve_piano
Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken
3.0
What kept me reading were the random passages that were just absolute perfection. (Don't ask what got me interested to begin with -- I *think* I was just needing a book from the library and all my pre-chosen ones had holds on them already, so I took the first recommended one based on... something? I don't even know. I would have never thought, "I want to pick up a book about the people who live and breathe with a bowling alley".)
Yes, it's long, but who cares? It's engaging writing, even if the topics weren't (ie, daily life for a few generations of people connected with a bowling alley). The characters were exactly the type that you always find in the "small town stories" -- all the personalities, the tragedies, the shattered hopes and dreams and the redemption stories. No one character was a hero, and that is wonderful.
Yes, it's long, but who cares? It's engaging writing, even if the topics weren't (ie, daily life for a few generations of people connected with a bowling alley). The characters were exactly the type that you always find in the "small town stories" -- all the personalities, the tragedies, the shattered hopes and dreams and the redemption stories. No one character was a hero, and that is wonderful.