Hickory Co Co itibaren Gachha, West Bengal 741154, India
Book #31 of 2009 Closing out March strong, I finished this third book with barely 15 minutes left in the month. Waiting around at the Vet's office half the night helped with that. This book was similar to the other two as the third Gallagher sibling met her true love and stumbled about trying to figure out what to do with that. The two romantic leads from book #1 had their baby and the romantic leads from book #2 announced that they'd be having one. The two main characters here spent the whole book being in love and not getting around to actually admitting it until the last two pages. I think my favorite part of the book was when Jude had her baby.
This Pulitzer Prize winner (Fiction 1969) explores some of the struggles faced by native Americans in the 20th century. It's a somewhat challenging read, almost fragmented - written with past events interwoven with the present and story mixed with myth and legend. But that felt right for the characters and the culture. The central character, a young man named Abel, returns from fighting in a foreign war to find himself torn between his father's traditional ways and the forces of industrial America. Other conflicts include a collision between traditional native American beliefs and Christianity.