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Review title: small-town life, dead-on
Product review: This is one fine novel, and this reader hopes that it is just the first of many more to come from Tom McNeal. His eye and ear are just about perfect, and his depiction of Midwest small-town life (of which I can speak from direct experience) is dead-on. The novel is compassionate without ever lapsing into the sort of pastoral sentimentality that mars lesser fiction set in rural landscapes. McNeal manages to take a broad cast of characters and give each of them breath and personality. He's also a natural storyteller. What more could you want -- other, that is, than his next book?
