Do You like book Hunts In Dreams (2013)?
A moving, sad portrait of an American provincial town.The book is set around the boredom, the monotony in American provincial towns in the Midwest and centers around a torn family. The book tells about four days in October and tells the story of four members of the family, Charles, his wife Joan, their son Micah and Lyris which was only recently brought back by an organisation to her mother after being released to adoption after her birth.The language is easy, the words often set in parataxis, nevertheless, Drury suceeds in catching a picture of the American society which stamps itself to the reader. One travels with the family by grain-fields, weapon stores and woods, the American scenery clearly stands out before the eye.The history of the family in itself is rather discouraging. The members try to flee from her real life, go for her problems, besides, often from the way, get involved too fast in something. At the end one sits there, lays down the book and feels unfulfilled, sad just like the characters in the book itself.Though and easy-read, the story definitely stucks with you.
—Leah
I've found another interesting author. Hunts in Dreams, though short in pages, contains very dense writing that maintains a lightness and humor throughout the book. It felt a little like Tom Robbins with zany replaced with pithy. It also focused on small town midwest which I come from and enjoy reading about. The characters seemed very real. At one point he says "Charles would fix something in such a way that it would need fixing again soon." I feel like I've known Charles all my life based on that one quote. Another line that just struck me as oddly pithy was describing an art history class: "This was not the first time the teacher had mentioned the use of unsold paintings as insulation." Lines like that show up a lot, mixed in with the story, and the term I kept thinking of as I read this was off-kilter. It works for me.Won in Goodreads First Reads program.
—Jay