![]() ![]() If you prefer there be no religion in your fiction, this is not the book for you. ![]() The more I hated her, though, the more I grew to love their father. At first, I loved her honesty and her individuality, but I eventually grew to hate her. I loved both Frank and Jake as well as most of the people closest to them. For me that set a wonderful tone for the rest of Ordinary Grace which follows Frank and his brother Jake through a summer in New Bremen, Minnesota in 1961. ![]() This immediately called forth Stephen King's The Body (the story on which Stand by Me was based). In the opening of Ordinary Grace, it was revealed that a young boy had been killed on the railroad tracks outside of town. I'm happy to say Ordinary Grace delivered much of what I was hoping for. Coming of age stories are my absolute favorite, and the vision of growing up in the early 60s with baseball and root beer and family secrets made me really want to read Ordinary Grace. I wanted to read Ordinary Grace for the atmosphere promised by the book description. ![]()
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