Sunday, February 15, 2015

The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout

There are two Burgess Boys, Jim the hotshot lawyer, and Bob, the nice one, plus their sister Susan, who no one seems to like. Her son, Zachary, gets into trouble over an incident involving some Somali immigrants, thus bringing the Burgess boys together again, learning to deal with their childhood, learning to live with each other, and becoming a family again.
I'm a big fan of Strout's writing, but I found this took a while to really grab me. Good character development and good writing, but it lacked the power of Olive Kitteridge.

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