Ann Patchett

Fiction 2023 | 464 pages

One friend liked this book ... found it sweet and interesting.  Another couldn't finish it because she was bored.  I was in the middle between these two opinions but have leaned into boredom.

This book has no plot. I did quite a bit of research into reviews to see if anyone identified a plot that I was missing.  Nope.  They all say this book is about love ... romantic love, maternal love, and familial love.  But no one tells us the plot.  The "plot," for what it is worth, is a mother telling the story of her youth to her three grown daughters when they are all in seclusion at the family farm near Traverse City, Michigan, picking cherries, during the Covid Pandemic.  Yep, boring.  Even if she did date someone one summer who would later become a famous actor.

I better get a four-heart book into my blog soon, so you all will have something juicy to read as the snow begins to fall.  I am optimistic about my next two books, including Whalebone Theater.

November 2024