In the Book Pages this week, Erik Pedersen writes about finding the right book and author Rachel Stark talks books, reading and growing up in Perris, California.
Once, while exploring a dark corner of my hometown library, I looked up to see a dull, greyish, library-bound copy ofI don’t know what it was about this dusty tome that grabbed my younger self – especially since its scuffed spine offered no information other than the title and author’s name. I worry that it was as simple as thinking, “Hey, I go to the movies, too!” but I couldn’t really tell you.
to “A Month in the Country.” Prior to the inaugural episode, however, neither had read the book , Miller brought up the novel during our wide-ranging conversation. I’d not had room to include that part of the discussion in my original piece – and it had almost slipped my mind that we’d talked about it. But after reading the book, I went back through the transcript and found what Miller had told me about it.
What do I love about the book? As much as I could point to its melancholy or humor or longing, it’s not that any one part outshines the rest – it’s that’s all of its elements seem so perfectly balanced. “Go as a River” by Shelley Read: Set in Colorado over four decades and incorporating the creation of the Blue Mesa Reservoir on the Gunnison River . It’s the story of Torie Nash and how her life is changed by the chance meeting of a Native American boy one afternoon.
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