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Review title: A promising debut novel
Product review: A. Manette Ansay is one of my favorite authors. She struggles with two powerful forces in her personal life: an upbringing deeply rooted in Catholicism and a mysterious debilitating disease that saps her strength and endurance.In Vinegar Hill, Ansay's debut novel, Ellen Grier, too, is struggling against two forces: she's trapped in a difficult marriage that comes with some pretty sanctimonious in-laws and by, guess what? the demands of her Roman Catholic religion. Because of financial problems, Ellen, her husband, and their 2 children have returned to small-town Wisconsin to live with his stolid and alienated/alienating parents. Everyone is this little microcosm is suffering, a theme that Ansay has carried through all her subsequent books.This isn't Ansay's best book, but it was a good start to what followed. Don't miss her memoir, Limbo. When you read that, you'll recognize details from her life in her fiction.
