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Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
I've never read Wharton outside of a classroom setting, and I'm so, so glad I did. While A SON AT THE FRONT is equal parts boring and insufferable (in my opinion) this was fresh and tense and literally a page turner, which I didn't expect at all. Ethan is a creepy weirdo in a way that's far too familiar ("nice guy" type) and Zeena & Mattie are so carefully and considerably rendered that despite being told as a story between two men in a close-third perspective honed in on Ethan, it's clear (to me at least) whose story this really is. Finished in just over a day, and now I want to sit in Edith's house in the Berkshires and stare at a wall.