Book Review
Apr. 26th, 2010 11:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariA Virtuous Woman
by Kaye Gibbons
This beautifully-written novel is the story of the marriage between Ruby and Jack, tenant farmers in mid-20th century Georgia. They meet at the end of Ruby's brief and disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter and don't fall in love so much as fall together. Yet their relationship endures and deepens into a quiet and profound love. Gibbons captures the rhythms and styles of her character's speech so perfectly that you can literally hear the timbres of their voices and see their facial expressions as you read.
This novel has some structural similarities with The Time Traveler's Wife, but has a lot more in common with the first ten minutes of Up. It's a gorgeous and deeply felt book, one of the few that has made me weep.
by Kaye Gibbons
This beautifully-written novel is the story of the marriage between Ruby and Jack, tenant farmers in mid-20th century Georgia. They meet at the end of Ruby's brief and disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter and don't fall in love so much as fall together. Yet their relationship endures and deepens into a quiet and profound love. Gibbons captures the rhythms and styles of her character's speech so perfectly that you can literally hear the timbres of their voices and see their facial expressions as you read.
This novel has some structural similarities with The Time Traveler's Wife, but has a lot more in common with the first ten minutes of Up. It's a gorgeous and deeply felt book, one of the few that has made me weep.
