The Place Where I Come From edition by Laura J N Dawson Literature Fiction eBooks
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"We drove through New Jersey, through Philadelphia and Wilmington. The land got flatter and flatter, more and more sandy. As we headed south on Route 13, the houses and shopping malls gave way to fields of soybeans and corn. We were almost out of Delaware when the fan belt broke."
Milton, Delaware - a town at the Southern tip of the Delmarva Peninsula - is very flat, very sandy, and very small. "The Place Where I Come From" portrays the lives of small-town inhabitants just before the Internet became prevalent, in the 1970s and 1980s.
Influenced by Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg Ohio", "The Place Where I Come From" is a precise depiction of a particular place in a particular time - when isolation and stillness haunted the lives of a small, rural town.
The Place Where I Come From edition by Laura J N Dawson Literature Fiction eBooks
I devoured this book. In my opinion, it's both accessible and complex. It's a quick read, but certainly not fluff.What I found extraordinary about this book is that it's set up as a sort of remix of itself. The stories all take place in the same geographic region, the fictional Milton, Delaware, and each of the stories is written from the point of view of one or another of the cast of characters that make up the town's population. Characters occur and reoccur. They are shown from the outsider's, sometimes utterly judgmental, perspective. They are shown from their own personal narrative. This gives each character a wonderful depth, and challenges the reader to see them as human, complex, and sometimes contradictory. No one is completely predictable, and this collection captures that perfectly with it's tellings and retellings of the same stories by a variety of narrators.
As I got further into the collection, I realized that this was a collection of stories about dreams, literature, writing, culture and the power a small town can have on its population who try to escape to achieve those things.
This book is special because it's narrative is a meta-narrative. The real story lives somewhere beyond the actual writing; it is up to the reader to parse that story through the various portraits in the collection. The vocabulary is precise and refreshing. The stories are relatable. The author's literary talent shines.
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The Place Where I Come From edition by Laura J N Dawson Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
The phrase "If you lived here you would be home by now" is in Bridgeville De not Milton
unless this is just fiction
A easy, entertaining read. The short stories stand well on their own, but as you read on, you begin to realize there's an overarching emotional narrative. Together, they weave a tapestry of small town life, about hopes and dreams -- of escape, of a faraway future, and ultimately, what's left behind.
I enjoyed this book immensely, and hope to see more from the author.
I drive through Milton every summer on my way to and from the beach. I will probably finish the book, but it will feel like self-imposed punishment. The characters are hopeless, pathetic, abused. No joy in Milton, DE.
I've read quite a bit. I've read good books, I've read great books, and I've read terrible books. The issue with "Great" books is that they lie in the eye of the beholder. Some books are one person's favorite and another's most hated - but all great books have one thing in common - they are written wonderfully. This is a book that is written wonderfully. The word choice for descriptions is choice. The characters feel real. This isn't Lake Wobegon where all the women are pretty, all the men are handsome, and all the children are all above average - this is a fictional story that feels real - and that sort of writing is magical.
I devoured this book. In my opinion, it's both accessible and complex. It's a quick read, but certainly not fluff.
What I found extraordinary about this book is that it's set up as a sort of remix of itself. The stories all take place in the same geographic region, the fictional Milton, Delaware, and each of the stories is written from the point of view of one or another of the cast of characters that make up the town's population. Characters occur and reoccur. They are shown from the outsider's, sometimes utterly judgmental, perspective. They are shown from their own personal narrative. This gives each character a wonderful depth, and challenges the reader to see them as human, complex, and sometimes contradictory. No one is completely predictable, and this collection captures that perfectly with it's tellings and retellings of the same stories by a variety of narrators.
As I got further into the collection, I realized that this was a collection of stories about dreams, literature, writing, culture and the power a small town can have on its population who try to escape to achieve those things.
This book is special because it's narrative is a meta-narrative. The real story lives somewhere beyond the actual writing; it is up to the reader to parse that story through the various portraits in the collection. The vocabulary is precise and refreshing. The stories are relatable. The author's literary talent shines.
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