Peace Like a River

It was due back to the library, so I had to hurry! 3.5 stars. Took a while to get into, but then I got a lot more engaged (especially once I started skipping over Swede's unrealistic poetry and cowboy stories). Also, a lot of this is set in the North Dakota Badlands, and once upon a time Matt was considering taking a job in North Dakota and BOY HOWDY am I glad that did not pan out! The descriptions of snow, ice, being cold, cold rooms, horses tromping through crusty waist-high frost, being buried in quilts to no effect, plows not being able to get through six feet of snowfall in one night... I would not have survived there.

Anyway, I enjoyed the story of Reuben, Swede and Davy, Dad and Roxanna.