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Oct 05, 2015EmilyEm rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
'The trilogy begins on a family farm in 1920. A young couple, Walter and Rosanna Langdon, are just setting out on their own. Eventually they will have five children. The oldest, Frank, is what Smiley calls "the trunk of the tree" — smart, handsome and restless. But Smiley gives each of the Langdon children a turn in the spotlight, filling in the details of their lives and drawing the reader into a story meant to last a long time. "I wanted to watch the characters in the book from birth to, in some cases, death," she says. "And I wanted to watch their lives develop. And so I got them born and I set them on their paths, and they had to find mates and find lives."' --From Lynn Neary at NPR I can hardly wait for the next two books. Wow. Maybe it’s the farm girl in me or my interest in family history, but this will, without a doubt, be a top read of the year for me. Loved her one-chapter-per-year storytelling and her writing from all the characters points of view, even the toddlers!