Enjoyable, interesting, well-written, by an author at the top of his form. Like many Hellenga books, this one takes place in the American Midwest, but this is a strange Midwest, with snake-handling religious zealots, a small-town college professor who longs to go back to his anthropology research...
OK, I have now finished, and what I wrote below still holds true. Furthermore, he so very well depicts family relationships: how parents feel as their children grow up, how kids relate to their parents as they grow up, how husband and wife relationships change as time rolls on and how nothing sta...