I’ve gone back and forth on this book. When I started writing this post I felt like there wasn’t really much to it, an intriguing plot and not much else. But now, coming back to it about a month later (and after having meditated this evening) I think there’s something more to it. Lillian, a former gifted child now living a listless life in her hopeless hometown, gets a letter from her best friend Madison with a job offer. It doesn’t sound that appealing, but […]

Kevin Wilson’s Nothing to See Here begins as the story of two young women, Lillian and Madison, in their freshman year of high school at a fancy boarding school in the Tennessee mountains.  Madison is the daughter of a wealthy family; Lillian is a scrappy local kid attending on scholarship.  Despite their differences, they become close friends. The story then moves forward about fifteen years (the book is vague on time, both in terms of the relations of events in the book to each other […]