intensely human emotions…

Book review:

Small Things Like These

by Claire Keegan (b1968)

New York: Grove Press, 2021

118 pages

Much of Small Things Like These qualifies for an “ordinary” description, but the reader repeatedly is invited to experience such intensely human emotions that it’s troubling to turn the page and continue reading…

Bill Furlong, a coal dealer living a small life in a small town, rescues a forsaken girl, and understands that there is “fresh, new, unrecognizable joy in his heart,” but he dreads what is “yet to come…” The girl is a hapless pawn in an enduring evil reality.

Keegan knows how to tell the reader about that joy, in her smooth and enticing prose that creates credible people living credible lives in a small place that makes room for great hearts.

She gives us reason to imagine that more people are willing to do good.

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Book review: Who Built America?

…including people

who got their hands dirty

by Christopher Clark and Nancy Hewitt

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