I recently finished Lee Smith's On Agate Hill and was just blown away, mostly by the many narrators. Superb, all. I recently quit a book by this author, thinking it boring. And I am allllmost sure I started this one in print and quit it. But I am a sucker at through-the-eyes-of-a-child stories, and a good portion of this is just that. It starts in the present, goes back to the heart of the story soon after the civil war, and ends in the early 1900's. A few times I actually thought the book was over, and I sat all choked up thinking what a great tale, then I'd hear, PLEASE INSERT NEXT DISK. There is a bit of music in the way of hymns, not the least overdone. Highly, highly recommended.
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