3. Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman

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3. Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman

This novel was fantastic. It was very much like reading a Coen Brothers movie. It’s really dark, but has some very funny characters and moments. It’s a wonderful read. The story takes place in Owl, North Dakota in 1983. The story is told from the perspective of three people: Horace, the old man, Julia, a young teacher who had just moved to small-town Owl from big-town Milwaukee, and Mitch, the high school kid who’s on the football team. However, they aren’t telling the story so i guess there’s kind of this fourth character who tells the story.

It’s a slice of life kind of thing, reminding me of Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio only dark and really funny.

It gets 0 Cansecos because it was perfect. Wait, there was one thing that kind of bothered me. The high school kids all talked like kids today. It’s like they were using the slang of now instead of the slang of nearly 30 years ago. I realize that I’m nit-picky though.

I’m sad that this is the author’s only fiction book. Mr. Klosterman does have a few nonfiction books though, so that rocks.

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