I didn’t like this book at all, but I finished it. It had the odd combination of being kind of meaningless, boring, offensive, and charmless, while also being filled to the brim with reviews and authors comments suggesting just how important this work is. It felt like the novelization of the book Hillbilly Elegy, or maybe it’s just the book he copied to write his scam book. This book also felt like a scam. I have read a lot of Southern literature, and while this […]
You can almost hear it, Rubie’s skeleton rearranging itself
The Beans of Egypt Maine by Carolyn Chute