Alexandra Carl's the Importance of a Future

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I think the style of writing, it's pretty, it's blunt is not the right word, but nor would I like say it's kind of purpley either. It is this interesting mix of kind of a journalist's eye and ear combined with a poet's sensibility. But what I liked about it was mostly the prose. Okay. Like, okay, you say you didn't have a take about this book, but that you did like it. Yeah.

O podcast! O books! O episodes about hard-scrabble immigrants eking out an existence on tough Nebraska land. Cather's work - rich in memorable prose and compelling characters - could stand to be better known, but it still has blind spots common in American frontier fiction.

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