Reviews

Letters from the Country by Carol Bly

chelzabeth's review against another edition

3.0

I’m from small-town Minnesota. I’m from a smaller town than the 2,000 people in Carol Bly’s home town. My town is so small that the high school graduates single-digit numbers of seniors. (I went to a larger town for school.) My town is so small that had I gotten in trouble in Hill City, my father would have known I was in trouble before I finished getting in trouble. (Fortunately, I had a little more room to get in trouble in Grand Rapids.) This is starting to sound like a Jeff Foxworthy joke. Actually, for comparison, have my home town, and the town I went to school in.

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nicoleberning's review against another edition

4.0

I admire Bly's voice and abrasive side in this essays. Living in a small town in Minnesota and reading these essays, I can assign characters from her essays to people in my own life. Most of them are still relevant today, although a few are dated.