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An achingly beautiful book about ugly, ugly things. Pete Snow is a social worker for the DFS in Tenmile, Montana in the early 1980's. The area he covers is vast; the families he tries to help, utterly broken. Pete Snow is about as broken as all of them, but always seems as hell-bent on saving them as he is on destroying himself. There is a steady stream of hapless and hopeless characters in the book: drunks, drug addicts, lost souls, vagrants, prostitutes, politicians, criminals, lunatics, and r
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I think this is a clear case of overhype. I listened to the audio which seemed to go on forever but probably is the only way for me to have finished it.
I liked the angle of the story being told from the perspective of a social worker but this type of book just gets me all riled up about what's wrong with rural America. Ignorance, child abuse, religious fanaticism, neglect, alcoholism, divorce, distrust of government, gun violence, prostitution, lawbreaking, survivalism, drug abuse, ....everythin ...more
I liked the angle of the story being told from the perspective of a social worker but this type of book just gets me all riled up about what's wrong with rural America. Ignorance, child abuse, religious fanaticism, neglect, alcoholism, divorce, distrust of government, gun violence, prostitution, lawbreaking, survivalism, drug abuse, ....everythin ...more
Another book I picked up two or three times to read and kept putting down. Not sure why though. This was a very good book, very well written about some messed up families. It is scary to realize that much of this book could be true.
The book was written in two different perspectives. One was a narrative from the POV of a social worker and the second was like reading a social workers transcripts. It was interesting to see how the two eventually fit together.
Henderson did a good job evoking sympat ...more
The book was written in two different perspectives. One was a narrative from the POV of a social worker and the second was like reading a social workers transcripts. It was interesting to see how the two eventually fit together.
Henderson did a good job evoking sympat ...more
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