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Now On My Kindle…

June 30, 2011

I’m a creature of reviews if I’m not familiar with an author, and the raves for Jean Thompson’s novel were too good to ignore. Ditto the National Book Award nomination.

I was not disappointed.

Talk about a broad canvas. The story, about the members of an Iowa family, covers over 30 years of American culture – from our wars to our sexual mores, from sibling rivalry to romantic travails. It’s not my usual jam – i.e. it’s fairly depressing what happens to the characters as opposed to a laugh riot – but Thompson is a terrific storyteller and I couldn’t put the book down no matter how many crises were thrown at me.

I love novels that transport me, that have a sense of place, that give the characters a distinctive voice, that have a plot with twists and turns rather than one that slows to a crawl in order to showcase the author’s flair for language. “The Year We Left Home” fulfilled all of my requirements for a book I couldn’t wait to get back to each night.

Highly recommended.

 

Filed Under: Book Reviews, Mainly Jane Tagged With: Jean Thompson, Kindle, National Book Award nominee, The Year We Left Home

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Jane Heller is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. Her fourteen breezy, witty novels of romantic comedy and suspense are now entertaining millions of readers around the world, along with her two books of nonfiction.

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