Zorrie

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Call Number: Fiction / Hunt, Laird, Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Hunt, Laird
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch

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After losing both her parents and her aunt, Zorrie is cat into the perilous realities of rural Depression-era Indiana. Drifting west, surviving on odd jobs, Zorrie finds a position at a radium processing plant. When Indiana calls Zorrie home, she finds the love and community that has always eluded her in and around the small town of Hillisburg, but discovers that her trials have only begun. -- adapted from jacket

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Not for me submitted by manz on July 20, 2022, 4:48pm I couldn't get into this book. I listened to it on audio and found it boring. It's lovely writing though! I guess I just wasn't in the mood for this kind of novel when I listened to the book.

Couldn't get through it submitted by redwood on July 23, 2022, 8:11am The jacket made it sound so promising, but the writing was totally emotionless. Flat characters, no real engagement with the setting ...

Slow, flat, boring submitted by 21621031390949 on July 16, 2023, 4:37pm Lordy, Lordy, this is one of the slowest novels I’ve recently read. The descriptions of this as a “quiet” novel might be the understatements of the year. While I often find stories of ordinary people to be compelling and moving, this one was just boring. There were little bits of action and then long stretches of Zorrie’s thoughts, as in “Zorrie thought about X. Zorrie thought about Y. Zorrie thought about Z, and how all X, Y, and Z had endings.” [That’s not an excerpt from the book - only my impression.] Zorrie spent a huge amount of time thinking, but none of this was explored deeply. It all felt so….repressed. I just couldn’t find a character in this book I could connect with.

I listened to the recorded version and it’s possible that listening to it and the narrator’s voice negatively influenced my experience; sometimes I like a book better when i read it in print. But I found this book so slow that mid-way through I bumped the speed up by 25% to see if that would help. It didn’t.

Still, the writing is good in its clarity, and the author creates an image of Indiana that is consistent with what I know. Lots of people love this book. Maybe you will, too.