Some Luck (The Last Hundred Years Trilogy: A Family Saga)
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes the first volume of an epic trilogy that takes us on a literary adventure through cycles of birth and death, passion and betrayal that will span a century in America. "Intimate.... Miraculous.... Staggering.... A masterpiece in the making." --USA Today 1920, Denby, Iowa: Rosanna and Walter Langdon have just welcomed their firstborn son, Frank, into their family farm. He will be the oldest of five. Each chapter in this extraordinary novel covers a single year, encompassing the sweep of history as the Langdons abide by time-honored values and pass them on to their children. With the country on the cusp of enormous social and economic change through the early 1950s, we watch as the personal and the historical merge seamlessly: one moment electricity is just beginning to power the farm, and the next a son is volunteering to fight the Nazis. Later still, a girl we'd seen growing up now has a little girl of her own.
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This is a story about Walter and Rosanna and their children growing up on a farm Iowa. It is told through multiple voices, but starts with Frank as a baby and what he sees and observes. It continues like this through several years, all told from the perspective of a young child. It is a slow moving book and goes through year by year. Nothing really exciting happens. I kept hoping it would get better, but it didn’t. The children grow and some get married and have their own children. I only stuck with it because I had it in audio format and didn’t have anything else to listen to. I would not recommend this book.
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