Some Luck

 

Some Luck by Jane Smiley
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The story of the Langdons through time--each chapter is another year. Each year has vignettes from various members of the family--not all members represented each year. This snapshot setting works for the most part and I felt like I got a good sense of most of the characters. Frank was surely my favorite, as I think he is supposed to be--the eldest son with a charismatic personality who doesn't have an easy life but regardless has things go his way. You also get a sense of the roots of the farming culture, which a large portion of Americans come from. Entertaining enough that I wanted to continue the series.

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There were so many things Rosanna could have been besides a farm wife, she thought.  But it was not a source of regret--it was a source of pride.