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There is a lot of solid writing in this book! It reminds me of Wallace Stegner, Ivan Doig, Larry Watson in that it is evocative of a distinctly American space & time.

So-so rating because first, there is a dog fighting chapter and Rhodes tries to write a sympathetic participant. Second, there is an entirely implausible event/plot line 3/4 of the way in which completely lost my buy-in.

I live in the driftless region of the US. 😊

"To get to Words you must first find where Hwy 47 and County Trunk Q intersect, at a high, lonely place surrounded by alfalfa, corn, and soybean fields. . . . He had come here, he knew then, as a last stand -- to either become in some way connected to other people or to die. He could no longer live as a hungry ghost." If you want to know the real Midwest, US, and its people #ReadThisNotThat #MayBookFlowers @RealLifeReading David Rhodes ?