A review by jess_mango
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

4.0

A Thousand Acres is a reworking of Shakespeare's King Lear. Smiley has set her novel on a thousand acre family farm in Iowa. The family patriarch decides to retire and hands his farm over to 2 of his 3 daughters. The book started off slowly. The novel turns into a character-driven story about family and betrayal.