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This novel, set midcentury on a northern Vermont hill farm, is masterful. The vignettes cover a dozen years of a boy‘s life with his irascible grandfather and formidable grandmother whose marriage is known locally as the forty years war. Steeped in pine trees, firelight and farm work, this tale of a dying north woods culture is funny, dramatic, and bittersweet. Its power crept up on me, and I cried before the end. Pure writer‘s magic here, folks.
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