Title: An Enlarged Heart
Product review: One of Baxter's characters suffers from an enlarged heart, and that's what this reader suffered too after reading The Feast of Love; pangs of sorrow hit me hard in the concluding chapters. Baxter chronicles the love stories of several of our neighbors in a voice like an aging Holden Caufield's. Somehow Baxter's hypnotic prose moves us to realize the wisdom of both Soren Kierkegaard and a roadside psychic in the character of a clerk in a suburban mall coffee shop. And the Michigan setting is perfect--from the moonlit 50-yard line in the U. of M. stadium to the ill-fated honeymoon up north. Reading this novel was a wondrous experience.
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