A review by msmelinda
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

2.0

Overall, this book was good. Just enough details on the ins-and-outs of farming and farm life to make me feel like I was part of it; plenty of family (and otherwise) drama to keep things novel, to encourage you to keep turning the page. But it seemed like the plot spent most of its time foreshadowing, or resolving. The major points were written in such a minor way it was easy to miss things that were apparently a Big Deal.

Plus there was just a little too much...grown women calling their fathers “Daddy,” wives being in charge of all their husbands’ meals and laundry, casual sexual abuse, etc, for the feminist in me to enjoy the book.