The Road Back to Sweetgrass

I picked up this book from the library earlier this week, and was glad for its existence during the recent power outage here in Minnesota. In the book, we meet a group of people whose lives are related in a variety of ways. The chapters go through several decades, during which romances are formulated and then broken-up, families go through changes, women find careers and struggle to fit in - all things that happen in real life, but somehow written out it seems like a TV show like Buffy the Vampire Slayer where you fall in love with the characters and when it's over you are sad to see them go. I liked it.

I found myself identifying with the characters, especially Dale Ann, who is a bit of a goody-two-shoes as seen through the eyes of her show more peers. I felt so bad for her because she never got the happy ending that I felt she deserved - I might have cried, but it's hard to say. It was a nice surprise when I got to the end of the book and her life actually did turn out okay. Good for her.

I also liked the story of Margie. I think it's important because sometimes you expect your life to turn out one way, and you get your hopes up, and then your life turns out completely different, and it's not the way you thought but it's not bad either. I would recommend this book to anyone. I did take off one star because there were a few phrases in italics and I didn't understand why they were in italics - I thought perhaps it was a formatting error, but then considered maybe there was some particular reason they were italicized - anyway, I couldn't figure it out, and it was distracting. show less