The Womanless Wedding

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Summary: small town life through a boy's eyes
Review: The author shows us the characters in his small town through the 14 year old protagonist, Fid, and he remains very true to this perspective. I particularly liked the device of having the characters introduced as Fid delivers newspapers. There are interesting plot developments, and the details around the presentation of the big event -- the womanless wedding -- are well done. Our book club very much enjoyed it and would highly recommend it to other book clubs.

Rating:
Summary: small town life through a boy's eyes
Review: The author shows us the characters in his small town through the 14 year old protagonist, Fid, and he remains very true to this perspective. I particularly liked the device of having the characters introduced as Fid delivers newspapers. There are interesting plot developments, and the details around the presentation of the big event -- the womanless wedding -- are well done. Our book club very much enjoyed it and would highly recommend it to other book clubs.

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Summary: Huck Finn in Wisconsin in the '30's
Review: This is a very well-written, engaging novel. The title refers to what was once a quite common event in small communities in the mid-West and the South (and still occurs to this day): as a fund-raising effort, all the men in the town dress up in drag and hold a "womenless wedding." The action in the novel takes place in the days leading up to, and following, the Wedding. The hero is a young boy who has a paper route, so he gets to see snippets each day of the lives and the secrets of everyone in town. Although set in rural Wisconsin in the 1930's, the book captures the universal wonders of being a 13 year old. The author has a fine ear for dialogue and the characters are realistically developed. It's all quite wonderful!

Rating:
Summary: Huck Finn in Wisconsin in the '30's
Review: This is a very well-written, engaging novel. The title refers to what was once a quite common event in small communities in the mid-West and the South (and still occurs to this day): as a fund-raising effort, all the men in the town dress up in drag and hold a "womenless wedding." The action in the novel takes place in the days leading up to, and following, the Wedding. The hero is a young boy who has a paper route, so he gets to see snippets each day of the lives and the secrets of everyone in town. Although set in rural Wisconsin in the 1930's, the book captures the universal wonders of being a 13 year old. The author has a fine ear for dialogue and the characters are realistically developed. It's all quite wonderful!