LATECOMERS (original 1988; edition 1989)

This isn't a book to read if you're looking for action or dialogue. It's a gentle, insinuating sort of novel. You come to care about the main characters very much, even though not a lot happens to them. It's almost a four-star read, but I did keep checking the page count to see how much further I had to go and that's my definition of a book that doesn't quite make the four-star grade. ( )