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Really impressed with the tremendously well crafted characters and the depth to which you feel like you know them as a reader. Highly descriptive writing style that draws you in and gets you lost in the emotional lives of this family.
I loved this book. The writing is beautiful and the story just stole my heart. Some people have said that it was depressing but I thought it was quite the opposite. Due to circumstances beyond his control, William Talmudge, the story's central character, was a very damaged man. Yet he created such great beauty in his orchards, was a loyal friend to Caroline and Clee, and found love in his heart to care for two girls who had been far more damaged than he.
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The writing style is lovely. I did find th ...more
Amanda Coplin's first novel follows Talmadge, the titular orchardist, who doesn't stray far from his fruit trees — but trouble comes to him in the form of two pregnant teenage runaways. The book, by turns lyrical and gritty, is a glimpse into the massive changes in the American West at the end of the 19th century.
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A delightfully quiet, yet meaningful, enjoyable read. Many devastating things happen, but it is so thoughtful. The characters are mostly very likable and often the meaning seems to be in what they do not what they say. It is comparable to Edgar Sawtelle to me, tragic in some ways, but a beautiful unhurried, story.
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