Driftless

I wasn't wowed, but I enjoyed some of the characters in this tale of a rural town enough to keep reading. I felt sceptical about how things were tending to work out “well” for people. Spinsters were finding male companionship, farmers in trouble with their cooperatives were finding anonymous benefactors who paid for legal representation, grumpy old skinflints were becoming kind, generous and emotionally insightful, and struggling artists were finding greater confidence in their artistic vision. I'm not saying this stuff can't happen and books shouldn't be written about it, just that I feel suspicious when it all happens in the same book.