Virgil Wander is a beautiful book, filled with imaginative characters in small town Greenstone, Minnesota. It was a gentle read, filled with slow moving activities in a dying Midwest town. The mining industry has disappeared, and the remaining residents strive to maintain a living and relationships.
Action is slow paced and is found amongst a murderous fish, a celebration titled Hard Luck Days, and kites. This book is meant to be savored for its well written prose and and ongoing reveals of history and characters.
It was interesting to read the development of the main character, Virgil, as he begins to recover his memory after sustaining a significant brain injury following a car accident. Leif Enger wrote such a fabulous story of how Virgil had lost his adjectives and wrote that loss into the progression of the story.
This was one of my favorite books this year, and I was sad when it ended.
Action is slow paced and is found amongst a murderous fish, a celebration titled Hard Luck Days, and kites. This book is meant to be savored for its well written prose and and ongoing reveals of history and characters.
It was interesting to read the development of the main character, Virgil, as he begins to recover his memory after sustaining a significant brain injury following a car accident. Leif Enger wrote such a fabulous story of how Virgil had lost his adjectives and wrote that loss into the progression of the story.
This was one of my favorite books this year, and I was sad when it ended.