Boundless Book Club >> A Short History of a Small Place, by T. R. Pearson

“T. R. Pearson’s charming, undauntable first novel is about human decency: the unrecognized first variety that cures insomnia and occasionally ensures a ticket to heaven…There’s an archaic, heartfelt element to A Short History—disarmingly kind and unabashedly funny—that rings of the essence of the Southern tradition of literature…But then the people of the town don’t die, they ‘succumb’; they have ‘relations’ instead of sex, and they ‘hold silent counsel’ when a less-complicated soul would just sit and think a spell. It is the charming deference to language—to regional homilies and, consequently, to truth—that gives the novel its freedom and compassion: the sense of lying on a hot porch in the afternoon and listening to someone special and very, very wise. There are less levelheaded educations to be had in the world than sitting captive at this father's knee.” (Boston Globe review)
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