Last week I read Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh - about a family living in a coal mining town during the 40s and 50s. I enjoyed this quite a bit. I like the reminder that we were not always in such constant contact with each other. A son may go off to college and come home with a wife his family had never met. A daughter goes to work in the city and is only in touch by letters. A family's only access to a phone is a pay phone at the local store...
I tend to read "historical" fiction that is set farther back - usually Victorian Era type things...it was nice to read something a bit more recent, even if it was set before my lifetime...
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