![]() But every living thing in this world gets weaned eventuallyĪll characters in this beautiful novel are being weaned from some relationship or another, wives from husbands, brother from brother, children from parent. I can’t imagine anything or anybody would like it. There is an instance in the book where Tom Guthrie – who featured prominently in Plainsong – discusses the weaning of cattle with his son Ike The lives unfold in simple, unadorned language and as they intersect and change, Haruf explores larger truths about family, resilience, cruelty and love. Circling around these central characters are a lonely young boy taking care of his aging grandfather a disabled couple desperately trying to get their lives on an even keel with the help of their social worker and an abandoned mother of two girls, trying to come to terms with the breakdown of her marriage. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the heart of the novel we return to the aging McPheron brothers, who are learning to live without Victoria Roubideaux, the lost single mother they took in, who is now leaving for college. ![]() My Reading Roulette for December was a tie and on the day that the last vote was cast, I learned that Kent Haruf had died aged 71 and as the obituaries and plaudits flowed in for his Plainsong trilogy, I was glad of the serendipitous nature of the voting.Įventide is the second in the Plainsong trilogy which centres on a number of families living in Holt, Colorado. ![]()
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