A review by sharonfalduto
Local Souls by Allan Gurganus

2.0

I'm not sure what I want to tell you about this book. I checked it out hoping for some Fannie Flagg good ol' storytelling, and I didn'te quite get it. This is three novellas (which I didn't realize going in) all set in the town of Falls, North Carolina. In some ways they are more character studies than plot driven stories--which is fine, of course, but Gurganis abuses the metaphor and sometimes distances himself from the characters he's writing about. So, all in all, I'd give it a B-.

This is also the author of "The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All," which I've never read, but I just love the title of.