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rianlion 's review for:
The Spectator Bird
by Wallace Stegner
A return to Joe and Ruth Allston from All the Little Live Things. Much of the book takes place in a journal that Joe kept when he and Ruth took a trip to Denmark, 20 years prior to the "main" narration. In the process of going through his papers, Joe comes across it and Ruth insists that he read it aloud to her -- it's cathartic for both of them and reminds the reader of how we bring our baggage forward with us. Stegner has a keen eye for the ebb and flow of long-married life; his portraits of Joe and Ruth are as vivid here as they were previously.