
J.K. George's review
Nov 30, 2023
My hard-cover copy of this wonderful and relatively short (at about 300 pages) novel came from a library in south Florida, where it was owned previously by a literary society. Not a new release - it was published in 1999 - the characters seem to rotate in and out, a manageably small number of persons living in a small town on the high plains of eastern Colorado, hence the title. A young woman (actually still a girl) is kicked out of her home after getting pregnant and is taken in by two wonderful old bachelor brothers on their old family farm, totally inexperienced in anything related to either a young girl or a pregnancy. A male teacher at her school is confronting a dangerously unruly student and his difficult parents. His two pre-teen sons find their way in the tightly knit small community. Other more minor characters rotate in and out.
The book seems like a collection of short stories, and I suppose it could be, but gets knitted together somehow, at least to some extent. It is another terrific book club selection and a generally comforting read of a small town and a few of the stories within.