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A review by vkemp
The Coffins of Little Hope by Timothy Schaffert
2.0
I read this book because it has been nominated for the 2011 Lariat List. I would not have finished it if I was not required to read it. The language is completely elegant, sometimes I would stop and re-read a sentence just because it was so well written. There were paragraphs that were well-written, other than that is was totally boring. There was no conclusion, just lots of elegant language about people I could not care about. Esther is an obituary writer at the paper run by her grandson; her children are dead; only the two grandchildren survive, along with her great-granddaughter, Tiffany.
Doc runs the newspaper; her daughter finally returns home from Paris after running away to live there with her lover, abandoning Tiffany to her uncle and grandmother to raise. A little girl goes missing, or does she? Did she even exist? Daisy believes her daughter Lenore was taken by Elvis, an aerial photographer who shacked up with her for a while. But no one in the town or county can ever remember seeing or knowing anything about this child. And the reader never knows either, very frustrating.
Doc runs the newspaper; her daughter finally returns home from Paris after running away to live there with her lover, abandoning Tiffany to her uncle and grandmother to raise. A little girl goes missing, or does she? Did she even exist? Daisy believes her daughter Lenore was taken by Elvis, an aerial photographer who shacked up with her for a while. But no one in the town or county can ever remember seeing or knowing anything about this child. And the reader never knows either, very frustrating.