A review by graywacke
The Wild Palms by William Faulkner

reflective medium-paced

3.0

puzzling over this one - two stories in some kind of contrast. One the story of married woman with two children, who takes off with another man in some attempt to escape societies expectations. We see mostly his perspective and his attempts to make things work. They other is the story of a convict who gets lost during the 1927 flood, and floats down the Mississippi Huck like, but instead of Jim, he's with a pregnant women nearing labor. The men are the story and they both pursue their own logic, with their own principles, and stick to them. 

There are interesting elements. And I got caught up in it in places, escapes the accidentally escaped convict. But I'm left feeling maybe this one wasn't thought through all the way, maybe it doesn't work. Of course, I don't really know that I read it correctly.