Border Songs

I had to check this book out for the cover art alone, which features a boiling mass of birds doing every darn thing birds do, on a falling tree limb by Walton Ford. And I suppose that piece might be a metaphor for the whole boiling mass of humanity but the book is really just about a small town. My......more

As the four stars implies, I liked this book. In fact I really liked this book, but this year I am getting tougher on what gets a full five stars. In years past this book and his most recent would have been five stars (what a reviewer cop-out). This book is the story of the U.S. Canadian border in W......more