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["Donna &/or Kieran" <holycow@cookeville.com>]

A few years ago I read Bailey White's book QUITE A YEAR FOR PLUMS and really enjoyed it.  So many books are written by city people, that a book entirely concerned with rural people and rural concerns was very refreshing.  Donna

 

P.S.  If you want something depressing and horrifying, there is the novel A THOUSAND ACRES about one farm family that has survived the loss of rural population, buying up defunct farms till they too go under.