Book club selection (via NOC; session held December 18, 2016).Minister based in western Iowa gets married late in life; impending heart trouble prompts him to write letters to his 7-year-old son - stuff the kid will read as an adult. Great reviews; Pulitzer prize winner; but our group didn't seem to connect all that well to the book. Including me - and I should have been the perfect audience for this.
The letter-writer's father and grandfather also were ministers; the grandfather was an ardent abolitionist, associated with John Brown and "bloody Kansas". His brother came back from college professing atheism.
There are elegant passages; some of the story line around young Jack Boughton took some form; but too much meandering. There were some interesting parallels across the generations - and between the letter-writer and Jack Boughton - not enough to drive my interest.
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