From the Bookshelf of That's What She Read Podcast Reading Group…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
No group discussions for this book yet.
What Members Thought
Such beautiful writing, so touching and heartbreaking, just a lovely book. Now I cannot wait to read the "sequels". (Quotes because I have read they are not necessarily sequels, just part of the same town and families in the first book).
...more
This book is a gem. Small, unassuming, doesn't look like much, doesn't seem to be about anything, and yet I was blown away with its beauty and wisdom. You can get away with only writing a book every twenty-four years when you turn out something as perfect and sparse as this. Like the depression and the bleak Kansas landscape which infuse the book with strength and resolve, there is sparse beauty on every page and I was compelled to underline passages constantly. Toward the end, Robinson sums up
...more
Jun 18, 2014
Lynn Mercurio
marked it as to-read
Dec 10, 2020
Astrid Delgado
marked it as to-read
Jun 25, 2014
Tina G.
marked it as to-read
