This isn't a great novel, in the sense of being deathless literature, but it's probably good enough. The fact it's set in 1994 is at least in the cover copy--and clear in the text pretty quickly, if you miss that--and it's evident that Graff loves rural Minnesota and the people of it; the novel seems to be gesturing in the direction of what the people who survive going off to war (and the people who survive those who don't) live with, how things change for them, how they themselves are changed. There's some real life-and-death stakes in the story, and the climax is actually people doing stuff, which makes me wonder just what the heck they're teaching MFA students at the University of Iowa these days.
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Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie
This is labeled as an epistolary novel, but that's not entirely right. There are entries that could not possibly have been written, fr...
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I read this book like thirty years ago (ack!) when I was in college, and I remembered liking it, and when my wife picked it as a classic-i...
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The cover text calls this something like "one of the most important novels" blah blah blah. It's not a novel, it's a disc...
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Not a novel, which ... well ... some of the events described in the book would stretch credulity in fiction. It's a book about the lie...
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