5/12/2023 0 Comments A thousand acres smileyI liked the first half of the story better than the second. The plot is about a farming life and the relationships among the characters. It is character driven and none of the characters is particularly likeable. Several female characters have experienced abuse. Her mother died at an early age and she has had to play a motherly role in her sisters’ lives. Protagonist Ginny, eldest of three sisters, is the narrator. It is set in 1979, a time when family farming was becoming increasingly difficult. A neighbor’s son, who had gone to Canada to avoid the Vietnam draft, returns to the area and develops relationships with two women. A dysfunctional Iowa farming family falls apart when the patriarch decides to leave his thousand-acre property to two of his three daughters.
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