Name: Home Town
ISBN: 9780671785215

Tracy Kidder

Explores what life is really like in contemporary small-town America, focusing on the people of Northampton, Massachusetts, to assess how individuals in a community transform a place into a home

Home Town

Marisel 

I found this book interesting at the onset, then really tediously boring. My family often teases me about my penchant for literary drama, and yet I could not get through this book. Just way too many depressingly dramatic stories and I felt not very connected to most of the people in the town in any way that made me care about their fates. The unintended, yet vivid racial profiling was also disturbing. After having read a good solid few hundred pages, I skimmed through the rest and felt no regrets. Meh.