Crossing to Safety

Debating 5 stars for this one. Now officially love Wallace Stegner and have to read all he's written.

I read this for book club this past month, and loved it. We read a variety of books for our book club, and everyone agreed that the writing in this book was exceptional. Stegner is skilled at seamlessly telling a story between places and times without giving the reader whiplash, at describing location in a way that allows the reader to ‘visit' and understand, and in developing characaters that are real and relatable and complex. I became invested in the characters and the story, and this will be a book I keep to re-read in the future.

A beautiful book about life, death, and friendship. Wallace Stegner is such an excellent writer and tells a relatively simple story with such intricacy and grace. Truly a pleasure to read.