A review by bobbo49
Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland

4.0

Garland's vision of American farm life in the mid-West during the later years of the 19th century is -both harsh and captivating. His characters are well-drawn and believable, even if Garland's prose is a bit dated, and the support they demonstrate for one another in the hard scrabble life they have chosen is - like the hurricane in Houston - a reminder that in difficult times people sometimes overcome their selfish proclivities and reach out to one another as human beings.