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In some ways this is an oddly uneven book, in its structure, anyway, as it has one very long section set in 1962 and then a forty-page section bringing us up to date (and breaking our hearts) in 1971-76. It never quite slowed down so you could catch it, except by thinking back, and it left some people more important than others as it changed. She had come to the Greenway house two months before Emma was born, and it was all so strange, the way life went on and seemed the same even tough it was always changing. Seeing Emma sitting there, so trusting and goodhearted, such a happy-looking young woman, filled her with memory suddenly, until she felt too full. I bought this copy in April 2000 and read it in July of that year, along with “ All My Friends are Going to be Strangers” which I’d previously read in 1997 from the library I can only assume that as I bought them together, I realised the link and read them together which makes sense, although there’s more linkage between this one and “ Moving On“. The third of the Houston Series which forms the last section of my hugely enjoyable Larry McMurtry 2022 Re-reading Project, and I’m realising that you need to read the series as one whole work, weaving in and out of the time sequence, as this one takes us back to before Emma and Flap Horton have their two sons, then forward a decade and more.
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