Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman
Downtown Owl, by Chuck Klosterman, reviewed by Kim White, Head of Hoyt Library
(Scribner, 2009, 275 pages, $24.00)
It’s 1983 in Owl, North Dakota, a tiny town with nothing going on. Klosterman provides a brilliant character study of three Owl residents: Mitch, a smart but depressed teenager; Julia, a teacher fresh out of college with a hankering for men and booze; and Horace, a widower whose life revolves around a daily coffee klatch with the other septuagenarians in town. Downtown Owl is a witty, clever, and heartbreaking novel about surviving (literally and figuratively) in small town America.
(Scribner, 2009, 275 pages, $24.00)
It’s 1983 in Owl, North Dakota, a tiny town with nothing going on. Klosterman provides a brilliant character study of three Owl residents: Mitch, a smart but depressed teenager; Julia, a teacher fresh out of college with a hankering for men and booze; and Horace, a widower whose life revolves around a daily coffee klatch with the other septuagenarians in town. Downtown Owl is a witty, clever, and heartbreaking novel about surviving (literally and figuratively) in small town America.
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