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Finally on one fine Indian-summer morning once the sugarbush maples flared on the hillsides and the hilltop sheep pastures were overgrown with young cherry and maple, Norman Pelham did return home from the war. He wasn't alone.
Critics have unanimously praised "In the Fall." The praise is warranted. This richly layered story of the rapidly evolving America, from life on a farm in Vermont,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], with the final many years of Prohibition and bootlegging, is really a remarkable portrait of the American family. Yet, this can be a first novel by a young man born in Vermont and raised there as well as in western New York State. His education began in one-room schools in Vermont and continued to include private progressive senior high school. He attended Franconia College in New Hampshire and Purchase College in New York. He now lives in Vermont with his wife and daughter.
The generations of the Pelham family are laid bare for readers to soak up. The events surrounding Norman Pelham's homecoming using the young slave girl,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Leah, begins an account of love,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], prejudice, and mystery. It travels narrow pathways because the pair settles into farm life on the Pelham farm. Gradually you find out how these two joined together, how their devotion grew sufficiently strong to face all but one secret that Leah carried north with her.
The 2nd generation reveals the life span of Norman and Leah's son James. James is the youngest from the Pelhams' three children. The summer of 1904, James leaves home with money he earned and sixty dollars obtained from his father. He's 19 years old, small limbed, lithe,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], with a a feeling of motion about him even if standing still. To check out him,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], you might think him French or Italian, and James let people think the things they would, it had been no concern of his.
In his travels he meets a woman named Joey. Their tempestuous relationship begins as wildly like a summer storm. Both retained the fevers of hate buried deep within them,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but they stayed together. Joey, from Canada, became a singer inside a Casino in Bethlehem while James worked the night shift managing a lounge in Sinclair. He also did a bit of illegal bootlegging after hours across the side streets and alleyways.
James' liquor business thrived and he saved his money as a legacy for his only surviving child, a son named Foster Pelham. His wife along with a young daughter had died throughout the winter of 1918 within the great flu epidemic. Foster carries the story of the third generation.
Foster appeared as if his father, dark hair and eyes, long limbed with shoulders like river rocks. He owned little of the child's exuberance. What joy he had died with his mother and sister. In 1926, when Foster was 16 years of age, his father died a horrible death as a result of thugs associated with a gangster boss. A voice in the past, an indication that what goes around comes around, sometimes later than sooner. In James' effects, Foster found instructions from an Abigail Pelham, sister to his father. Now, Foster knew where to find his father's family. Driving his father's shiny new car and endowed having a small fortune in cash,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Foster makes his way to the Pelham farm in Vermont. There he finds his true and many surprising family heritage. A discovery that sets him on a southern route to his grandmother's long undiscovered beginnings.
In Sweetboro, North Carolina, Foster meets Alexander Mebane,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], his grandmother's true half-brother. You cannot help but wish Foster had stayed in Vermont with his Aunt Abigail, but he didn't, and his life took a turn nobody could have predicted.
Lent's writing is really as lyrical because the soughing of maple leaves. Yet, when needed, his words snap and leave splinters of guilt inside your heart. His unique style and voice amazed me. The odd syntax, which revealed the ideas and depth's of his characters, might cause English teachers to shiver. The design and style works though. My, oh my, how it operates.
Every scene is positioned so. Each chapter carrying the storyline forward to something new, something even dangerous. The pace is slow, deliberate, and enticing as the fragrance of lilacs.
There is a strange satisfaction towards the conclusion of Lent's family saga. Sometimes life just turns things all inverted and all sorts of around where the beginning is the ending and also the ending may be the beginning,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
"In the Fall" deserves all the kudos given it by Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and also the Library Journal. Recall the name, Jeffrey Lent. ###
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