How could such a beautiful book be so damn depressing? I don’t know whether to recommend it or to warn you away from it! If you love nature and human kindness and old-time small town life, you’ll find it all here—told in slow, sensible and glorious prose. No fancy turns of speech here, and no sentences you have to read twice to get the sense of them. Just stories.
And it’s all so very sad. This is an elegy to the death of a way of life and those who loved it. Only a small family of backwoods people survive unscathed, and probably only then because the book ended before an economic development company acquired their lAnd and bulldozed it over.
But of course god heals all in the end. It’s kind of an elegy to “life sucks and then you die”… but it’s a beautiful life sometimes while you’re living it.
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