6\u00a0 bar rises 29.89\u00a0 3mph W\u00a0 windchill 6\u00a0 Winter<\/p>\n
Waning Crescent of the Moon of Long Nights<\/p>\n
Last night before bed I finished reading the Story of Edgar Sawtelle.\u00a0 This is a big book and well-written.\u00a0 The arc of the story brings Greek tragedy to mind.\u00a0\u00a0 A few people wend their way through a period of some 16 years or so, making choices and living out their consequences.\u00a0 This book features notable passages of an American magic realism with ghosts playing significant roles.\u00a0 There is, too, a village crone, Ida Paine, who dispenses sour wisdom as she runs a small grocery store.<\/p>\n
Edgar, a mute boy, and the title character has a life of wonder and pain.\u00a0 He interacts with a cast of well-drawn and closely observed dogs, his mother and father, an Uncle, a veternarian and his sheriff son.\u00a0 The isolation of their circumstance in northern Wisconsin near Lake Superior and Chequamegon National Forest provides an at turns bleak and rich natural world for this story.<\/p>\n
If you like a good story, well-told, this is a book for you, but beware.\u00a0 It will break your heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
6\u00a0 bar rises 29.89\u00a0 3mph W\u00a0 windchill 6\u00a0 Winter Waning Crescent of the Moon of Long Nights Last night before bed I finished reading the Story of Edgar Sawtelle.\u00a0 This is a big book and well-written.\u00a0 The arc of the story brings Greek tragedy to mind.\u00a0\u00a0 A few people wend their way through a period … Continue reading Story of Edgar Sawtelle<\/span>