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A review by stuartjrodriguez
American Pop by Snowden Wright
5.0
In American Pop, Snowden Wright has crafted a sweeping saga of a dynastic Southern American family, who in this novel are the first in America to invent and popularize soda pop.
This novel is epic in scope, jumping forward and backward in time over nearly a century thanks to an omniscient narrator who explores each character at a micro and macro level. The members of the Forster family are by turns troubled, ambitious, humorous, heroic, and tragic, but they are all rendered humanely and with incredible sympathy. Wright’s writing is also gorgeous, and this novel features some of the most beautiful passages of prose I have read in years.
This magnificent novel was one of my favorites of 2019, and I’ll be yelling about it for a long while to anyone who’ll listen. If you love great historical fiction, you must read this book.
This novel is epic in scope, jumping forward and backward in time over nearly a century thanks to an omniscient narrator who explores each character at a micro and macro level. The members of the Forster family are by turns troubled, ambitious, humorous, heroic, and tragic, but they are all rendered humanely and with incredible sympathy. Wright’s writing is also gorgeous, and this novel features some of the most beautiful passages of prose I have read in years.
This magnificent novel was one of my favorites of 2019, and I’ll be yelling about it for a long while to anyone who’ll listen. If you love great historical fiction, you must read this book.