Friday, March 29, 2013

Benediction / Kent Haruf 257p.

Another novel set in the small Colorado town in which Haruf's earlier Plainsong was featured.  An elderly cancer patient relives his past, wondering about the son from whom he's estranged.  A minister becomes estranged from his congregation and his family for his views on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Thoughtful, but with little plot movement.  I enjoyed this but it wasn't as strong as Plainsong.

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