![]() That decency is a fact weighty and undeniable as a boulder. What’s so compelling about the McPheron’s good nature is that they are decent and the veracity of their decency is never challenged. It’s the McPherons, two brothers who live alone on a farm outside of town, that buoy this novel of human cruelty with an unyielding air of decency. One fingers the pages and comes in stages to know Tom Guthrie, his boys Ike and Bobby, the troubled but sweet girl Victoria Roubideaux, and the work-rough hands and wind-blistered faces of the McPheron brothers. It takes hours or days perhaps to realize the strength of this book and allow it work upon you. It’s also a slow book in the way that a mist only begins to saturate you with time. But goodness in this book is not bumpkin in the way that sophisticated city-dwellers often sneer. ![]() Woven throughout Plainsong is a deep-rooted sense of goodness and grace that almost seems hokey and antiquated in today’s world. Grain that wavers like a sine graph yields a weaker structure than a grain pattern more oriented and point-to-point. ![]() A grain’s pattern offers indications of a plank’s strength. When one examines wood for purposes of construction, one looks at the direction of the grain, its flow through the sanded plank. ![]()
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