Abide with Me by Elizabeth Strout is a rather grim book about a Congregationalist Preacher and his daughter in a small town in New England in the late 1950's.
Although I love Strout's writing, (there are even moments here reminiscent of Marilyn Robinson's masterpiece Gilead,) reading her novels would have you believe that the world is full of small minded, small hearted, gossiping people who aren't satisfied until they have caused harm to others, and only then are the repentant.
I would love to read something by Strout that was not quite so depressing. So far I haven't found it.
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