6/29/2023 0 Comments Plainsong novel summary![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Haruf (Where You Once Belonged, 1989, etc.) believably draws these various incomplete or troubled figures together. Harold and Raymond McPheron, two aging but self-reliant cattle ranchers, are haunted by their imaginings of what they may have missed in life by electing never to get married, never to strike out on their own. Victoria Roubideaux, a high-school senior, is thrown out of her house when her mother discovers she’s pregnant. Among the several damaged families in this beautifully cadenced and understated tale is that of Tom Guthrie, a high-school history teacher in small Holt, Colorado, who’s left to raise his two young sons, Ike and Bobby, alone when his troubled wife first withdraws from them and then, without explanation, abandons them altogether. A stirring meditation on the true nature and necessity of the family. ![]()
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