Archive for April 11, 2011
SO MUCH PRETTY by Cara Hoffman
Imagine you are the “outsider” and reporter, Stacy Flynn. You came to this farm town in upstate New York via Cleveland to find the “big-picture” story on rural waste dumping here in off-the-grid Haeden. You’re twenty-four, alert as a cat, keen to pounce like a tiger, with Malcolm X glasses, a postmodern flair, and a Mencken regard. You’ve won an award in the big city, and now that the Rust Belt stories are waning, you seek the newly pelted. But after several years of living among wind-battered farmhouses, tall white flagpoles, crumbled colonials, and broken-down buses, you’re still waiting and suspicious of the omnipotent, industrialized local dairy farm while writing benign pieces about the latent, wall-eyed community….
April 11, 2011
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Tags: Contemporary, Literary, murder mystery · Posted in: Class - Race - Gender, Contemporary, Debut Novel, Literary, Mystery/Suspense, NE & New York, Reading Guide, Small Town
