This was an interesting novel. I found it captivating. Living in the Midwest I know the weather and the way of life here. People are taught to live in certain ways and when that is challenged people tend to think that the rules have been broken and that someone needs to change. Chip would have been a severe rule breaker without trying to. He was a Vietnam vet and had trauma from it. This made it hard for him to be able to function normally.
Bringing the religious aspect into the story made it interesting. The older generations seem very religious and as the younger generations come up, they are less and less religious. They tend to stop going to church or really hate going to church. I also found the idea of the farm crisis and how it affected the Midwest to be interesting. I am too young to remember a lot of this. I can see though how having a family member who works for the bank that takes you farm from you would be very difficult. You can’t do anything to help them, but they expect you to do something.
This is a very good coming of age story about the life of a family in the Midwest. It does tell us more about how the families in the Midwest live. It touches on divorce, religion, and many other aspects of a family including death and injury. This is a great book.
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