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Dec 30, 2014
Strout excels in characterization - this time, she has created a complex adult siblings' relationship that is frustrating for the reader who has to wonder why these two brothers and their sister even bother talking to each other. The more you read, the more you understand their complicated bond when the brothers return to their small hometown in Maine to help their sister and her son who is arrested for tossing a pig's head into a mosque. Secrets are exposed including one that includes the premature death of their father.