Empire Falls

I found reading this book to be vaguely unsatisfying but I'm not exactly sure how to articulate why. It was simultaneously kind of boring but also kind of had too many things going on at once. And I felt like the ending was pretty tacked on. It was very readable, and I enjoyed it, but I am a little mystified by its Pulitzer Prize. I've been (perhaps over-)thinking about it since I finished it to figure out what about this book would merit the prize and I'm still coming up short. Ah well.