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The Barrowfields by Phillip Lewis
4.0
I struggled to get into this book, but once I did I really liked it. Lewis' writing is somehow very calm--which I think is why I struggled. No matter what might be happening, the writing is calm, the narrator (Henry Jr) almost narrating an out-of-body experience.
Yet, somehow, this really works to evoke a place that Henry describes as a place where people don't trust you if you talk fast. Rural Appalachian North Carolina (or maybe Tennessee? I was never quite sure which state Old Buckram is actually in).
With Henry Sr coming home to raise his family (which is a defeat for him), as Henry leaves for college and law school, accidentally following in his father's footsteps, as he essentially abandons his younger sister Threnody, as he then returns himself—that calm narration moves on. I really do want to know what happens n these characters' lives in their next 10 years. The house? The BOOKS? Does Threnody forgive Henry? Does Henry marry Story? Where does everyone live? ARGH I need more!!
Yet, somehow, this really works to evoke a place that Henry describes as a place where people don't trust you if you talk fast. Rural Appalachian North Carolina (or maybe Tennessee? I was never quite sure which state Old Buckram is actually in).
With Henry Sr coming home to raise his family (which is a defeat for him), as Henry leaves for college and law school, accidentally following in his father's footsteps, as he essentially abandons his younger sister Threnody, as he then returns himself—that calm narration moves on. I really do want to know what happens n these characters' lives in their next 10 years. The house? The BOOKS? Does Threnody forgive Henry? Does Henry marry Story? Where does everyone live? ARGH I need more!!