Green Grass Running Water

[Grant, Usurper of Book Club]

I was back at home over Christmas and was doing some cleaning and found this book which I'd gotten forever ago and decided to give it a read.

It's an interesting novel, the use of coyote and the "women stories" used as a sort of framing device to blend history into contact with modernity I think is supposed to parallel Eli's story. Eli's house representing the old ways, the dam representing modernity and the water representing the force of nature.

The idea is not just that it's Eli's story, but a similar story that gets played out thousands or millions of times just with variations.

I think that was a novel framing device and that part of the story was quite strong. However, I didn't have much attachment to any of the characters and nothing in the plot really compelled me to root for (or against) them. That had a drag effect on the novel.