Dianne (gardngal) reviewed on 12/5/2018 + 268 more book reviews

It was on the power of other reviewers' words that I decided to request and read this book in the first place, and they were not mistaken! As one said, it was hard to get into at first, and I wondered what all the hype was about until...well, the deeper into the story I read, I could only agree with the person who wrote it was "stunningly beautiful writing". Every few pages, I wanted to copy down a turn of phrase, or the author's description of an event. Not surprising, since he was a professor of creative writing himself, that he knew the craft so well. It won the Pulitzer Prize, which also is not surprising. Based on the true story of his grandmother as left behind in her letters and her own writing, it is well worth the hefty length.

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