I really wanted to like this book since I grew up on a farm in Wyoming and now live in Colorado. But the book was monotonous and the dialogue between characters was tedious. I know the dialogue between the son and senile father was meant to be broken up and not make much sense, but the other characters were disappointing and there wasn't a lot of substance to the plot. There were a few funny parts that reminded me of my early life on the farm, and I know this book has won some awards, but most of the book was just tedious and unbelievable to me.

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I put a hold on this book at the library, expecting to like it, as I am interested in the problem of senile dementia and also like farms. But it was so full of pointless action, adolescent-type references to "tits" and sex, and boring conversation that I soon jumped to the end and found it even less to my liking than the beginning and gave up altogether on reading it. I found a lot of the humor too over-the-top to be believable, so it ended up being just annoying.

If there is any redeeming feature in the book, it is probably the tender way the son treats his father, but I am still not sure what the blurb inside the jacket means by calling the book an "unflinching" novel of rural America.

I suppose that people who like slapsticky humor and rambling stories may enjoy it. To each his own. This one isn't "mine"!

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