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Title: Lyrical Nightmares
Review: As mentioned before, the narrative style is at first disconcerting but eventually seems eternally familiar.Jacob, undertaker, constable, and deacon, is a small town savior; fancies himself to be anyhow. When diptheria seeps into the Midwestern way of life, it's the job of the sheriff and the doc to reign in the ensuing chaos. The novel builds rapidly-- it's the written version of a wheel turning faster and faster.O'Nan wisely interrupts the haunting passages of death and sickness with lilting, sweet moments depicting Jacob as a true family man, enraptured with the happiness his wife and daughter bring him.The concurrent plot line brings a rushing wildfire into the quarantined town. Jacob is given the final decision between who lives and dies in this little place called Friendship, full of people who are no more and no less than a family to him.I fear this book has provided me with a set of delicate, beautiful nightmares tonight.
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