Blogs in August 2020

Recapitulation 5th August 2020

Bruce Mason returns to Salt Lake City not for his aunt’s funeral, but to encounter the place he fled in bitterness forty-five years ago. A successful statesman and diplomat, Mason had buried his awkward childhood and sealed himself off...

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Goodbye to Poplarhaven 5th August 2020

“`Nothing is nicer,’ Grandpa used to say, `than a full barn and a full granary.’ He might have said a full cellar too, for the rows of bottled fruit loomed on the shelves in the dim light, and the...

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Junction, Utah 5th August 2020

River guide Madeline Kruse has been on the run from a family secret most of her life, escaping on whitewater and into wilderness canyons. She’s as different from the alfalfa farmer she meets in Junction as big rapids are...

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Hilbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis 5th August 2020

Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis―that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on...

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Casket Girls 4th August 2020

Story of four respectable girls sent by French king to New Orleans in 1728 as potential brides. They are all very different and the novel follows each of them. Apparently many of their adventures are based on true stories.

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