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A review by lieslindi
The Night Country by Stewart O'Nan
So good! Not a book that, I think, I would have picked up on my own -- except the title is great -- so I'm glad, as ever, of book club.
The inner lives of the characters was great but the writing, the evocation of time of year and holiday and time of life and mood, was outstanding.
The book might not have been so stirring if I didn't know its suburban Connecticut setting so well -- a college boyfriend lived around the corner -- if I couldn't picture the trees, the river, the houses, the hopelessness as intimately as I do.
The inner lives of the characters was great but the writing, the evocation of time of year and holiday and time of life and mood, was outstanding.
The book might not have been so stirring if I didn't know its suburban Connecticut setting so well -- a college boyfriend lived around the corner -- if I couldn't picture the trees, the river, the houses, the hopelessness as intimately as I do.